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Vodafone restores connections after theft outage

...of England after a major outage. Photo credit: varets on Flickr A break-in that occurred between 1am and 2am on Monday morning at a... Read more

28 February, 2011 by David Meyer

Sony PlayStation websites hit by log-in exploit

...allows hackers to change users' passwords with the data stolen during the break in to the service in April. The sign-in for the PlayStation... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Erica Ogg

WordPress firm Automattic suffers root-level hack

...has nearly 18 million hosted blogs. "Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Vodafone break-in causes network outage

...is racing to fix a network outage that was caused by a break-in on Sunday night. Some Vodafone customers — the company has not... Read more

28 February, 2011

Apple updates Mac OS X after DigiNotar break-in

...system, in a bid to mitigate the damage caused by the DigiNotar break-in. Security Update 2011-005 for the Snow Leopard and Lion versions... Read more

12 September, 2011

Vodafone phone, SMS, internet services hit by Basingstoke break-in

...thousands of customers who lost voice, SMS and internet services following a break-in at one of its facilities. Vodafone said a "few hundred thousand... Read more

28 February, 2011 by Steve Ranger
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51 Break In! 1.0

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10 August, 2011
Easy <endeca_term>Break in</endeca_term> Vietnam 1.0

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4 February, 2011

MasterCard investigates credit card data breach

MasterCard is looking into a possible break-in at one of its credit card data processors that could have... Read more

30 March, 2012

Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls

...skills. But what other jobs do you tackle when there's a break in the regular IT workload?This story originally appeared as 10 tasks... Read more

20 May, 2012 by Jack Wallen

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

...the bank could not comment on how the hackers had managed to break in. While this could be called 'blackmail,' we prefer to think of... Read more

4 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Nine symptoms for diagnosing ailing IT

Nine symptoms for diagnosing ailing IT

...hardware, buggy or outdated software, or lax security policies. But while one break-in is understandable, multiple hacks suggest it is time for a major... Read more

9 April, 2012 by Jack Wallen
Billard Counter 2.6

Billard Counter 2.6

...billard game.It takes care of the score (and who has the break in the current game) for 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball or... Read more

10 May, 2012
BT chases cable thieves with RABIT

BT chases cable thieves with RABIT

...going after cable thieves with a new technology capable of spotting a break in a wire and identifying it quickly enough to potentially catch the... Read more

26 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Dutch government sets DigiNotar certificate kill date

...certificates had been abused, but they were certainly compromised. DigiNotar suffered a break-in sometime before the end of August, which led to fraudulent certificates... Read more

26 September, 2011

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