As a security-tightening measure on individual Linux boxes, Ozancin recommends reviewing security-sensitive files, especially those installed set-UID or set-GID to run with the root user's authority (or equivalent).
The information maintained in the files includes your age, Social Security Number, your payment history on credit extended to you in the past, your current and prior addresses, and your current and prior employers.
Each PC has its own programs, files, data back-up and security.
All told, Kaspersky Lab said that a total of 30, 749, 066 vulnerable programs and files were detected on computers using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), with an average of 8 different vulnerabilities detected on each affected computer.
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Top managers often have little appreciation that their intellectual property, emails, data files and even factory blueprints are compromised by subpar security.
While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.
In a separate scandal in the late 1980s, the security services were forced to open up to the public, and then destroy, secret files they had kept on more than 900, 000 Swiss citizens.
As promised, Backtrace Security, a group of pseudonymous hackers formerly associated with the hacker collective Anonymous, published files earlier this week on BacktraceSecurity.com containing what the group says are identifying details and communication records of members of Anonymous.
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Los Alamos was the focus of a year-long controversy in 1999 over alleged security lapses involving a former lab scientist, who has been charged with illegally copying highly classified files and is awaiting trial.
Stuxnet's creators are likely, according to the analysis produced by security firm Symantec, to have needed to get hold of SSL certificates in order to create files that had been "digitally signed to avoid suspicion".
Keller adds his claim to two other hacking allegations against WikiLeaks in just the past week: Tiversa, a small security firm based in Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg that WikiLeaks had actively grabbed as many as half of its files from unwitting users on peer-to-peer filesharing networks.
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The confirmation came after Lulz Security, a loosely aligned group of hackers, said it had carried out the attack for fun and posted files online.
AskForCents exists because of the Turk, as does CastingWords, a service that transcribes spoken audio files using people who have computer access and some time to kill housewives, night-shift security guards and so on.
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