As 2011 fades to black, we look back at the biggest security snafus that made headlines. Some might even want to label 2011 the year of the advanced persistent threat. Norway’s National Security Agency disclosed that oil, gas and defense firms there had been targeted by sophisticated attacks. The four-day global outage of the BlackBerry data services in October was not the kind of attention that RIM wanted, already struggling to keep the BlackBerry looking smart in the face of the Apple iPhone publicity barrage.”]
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