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Main on December 30th, 2011 by Pingdom
As 2011 draws to a close we wanted to take a look at computer and information security in the twelve months that have passed.
What will probably stick in most people’s minds is the Sony PlayStation Network and Qriocity hack, which resulted in an outage lasting 23 days. In other developments, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec took to social media to further their causes, and mobile malware got more attention than ever before.
All in all, there’s no doubt that 2011 was a very busy year for IT security professionals.
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Main on April 7th, 2009 by Pingdom
You see them over and over again in blogs and news articles. Web buzzwords like The Cloud, Web 2.0, wiki, cloud computing, crowdsourcing, and so on. They have become part of our everyday vocabulary.
Have you ever wondered who actually came up with these words, and when? Where did they first show up?
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Main on December 13th, 2007 by Pingdom
Usually downtime on the internet is a Bad Thing ™, whether it is network downtime or server downtime or any other malfunction. But let’s face it, there are some things we would happily see go down. Spam servers If spam would end, even for just a while, the mail servers of the world would heave [...]
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