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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

For example, the Target security breach in December, 2013 resulted in hackers accessing 40 million credit card records of customers from every store [2]. Cyber attacks are on the increase, with six of the top 10 largest incidents occurring in 2013 (402M) and 2014 (469M to date) [1]. Most Active Malware Today.

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What?No Angry Birds? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

by Brian Katz on March 20, 2013 · 2 comments. There’s nothing wrong with trying to protect your users from malicious apps, malware and spyware. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. What…No Angry Birds? As I rode to the airport this morning, an interesting conversation sprung up on twitter. Innovation.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

One famous example of this is how, after countless flashlight apps that used the iPhone’s camera flash became popular in the App Store, Apple built its own flashlight tool and integrated it into iOS in 2013. Suddenly, those third-party apps weren’t necessary.

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