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A notification posted by British web hosting company eUKhost in the announcements section of its site on April 28 alerted customers of a data breach that targeted the firm’s billing systems. “In the past 24 hours we have been made aware that there has been a compromise of our billing system. Although the method of the compromise remains unclear, we can confirm that an administrator level login was compromised and an IP address added to an allow list to allow a successful login,” Managing Director John Strong wrote . “We have not noticed an increase in compromised accounts of clients and our initial research does seem to suggest the perpetrator wasn’t out to cause damage to our customers, but until we better understand the nature of this problem, we can not take anything for granted.” As a result of the incident, the organization moved its billing system to another, more secure, server. Strong told The Register that their investigation led them to believe that t...

The war against hackers won't be won unless companies change the way they use computer networks. UPDATED with a comment provided by the FBI. FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry admitted to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that despite recent arrests, the United States is not winning the war against hackers. As it stands now, the current private and public approach to fending off hackers is "unsustainable" because they're just too weak to stand up against these "talented" hackers. Henry, who plans to leave his position at the FBI after serving for over two decades, said that the best way to fend off hackers is to change the way companies use computer networks. Right now they're a risk to national security and the economy operating vulnerable networks. On a whole, they're unknowingly costing the taxpayer huge amounts of money. ...

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