Thursday, October 13, 2011
'Hollywood Hacker' Collared by FBI The FBI says it has arrested a man who it claims is responsible for hacking into actress Scarlett Johansson's e-mail account
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Technology News Gallery: July 12, 2011 SLIDE SHOW The week's news in pictures: Facebook video chat, HP's long-awaited tablet, and hackers kill the president on Fox News
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
WikiLeaks moves to Amazon after DOS attacks Hacker dubbed 'The Jester' claims responsibility for attacks, says F-Secure exec
Monday, October 18, 2010
The perils of social networking FOCUS 2010: Cybercriminals can use the location data you tweet to craft a malware link just for you. Why McAfee is launching its own URL shortener
Friday, September 24, 2010
FBI investigating 'Here you have' worm Evidence links the author to a UK mobile provider and a Middle Eastern time zone
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Black Hat too commercial for you? As network security experts converge on Las Vegas to attend the Black Hat and DefCon conference, some experts are opting for a smaller event, known as Security B-Sides, which one executive with Astaro GmbH says has more of a frat house feel and whose priority is not lead generation for vendors
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Twitter settles FTC privacy complaint The agency investigation focuses on two attacks in 2009 in which user accounts were compromised
Friday, June 11, 2010
Security lessons from AT&T's iPad breach ATT Inc.s' failure to protect Apple iPad e-mail addresses spotlight the kind of security issues facing enterprise smartphone deployments
Monday, May 17, 2010
Why hackers need little tech knowledge With as little as $2,500, you could set up a hacking operation and potentially steal electronic banking credentials, a Cisco product manager said. Find out why companies succumb to these threats
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Jury convicts Palin e-mail hacker A federal jury convicted 22-year-old David Kernell of two charges stemming from a 2008 break-in of an e-mail account used by Sarah Palin. He faces up to 20 years in prison on federal felony charge.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Pwn2Own winner tells Apple, Microsoft to find their own bugs The only researcher to "three-peat" at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Charlie Miller said that security is such a "broken record" that he won't hand over 20 vulnerabilities he's found in Apple's, Adobe's and Microsoft's software.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Is someone intercepting your mobile voice calls? The CEO of voice call encryption vendor Cellcrypt said mobile phone users are only now realizing that voice calls are a form of data that can be intercepted. A Federation of Security Professionals member thinks the average user is still willing to take the risk
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PhoneSnoop ‘tip-of-the-iceberg' BlackBerry threat An Indonesia-based security guru said he created the proof-of-concept app that lets hackers listen in on a BlackBerry user’s surroundings to raise awareness of security threats out there. A Symantec expert warns this demonstrates what’s possible
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
BlackBerry, other smart phone users easy spy targets BlackBerry apps should go through the same scrutiny as software writeen for the iPhone, a security researcher says
Monday, September 14, 2009
Clerity MMAP methodology eases mainframe migrations The Migration and Modernization Analysis Process (MMAP) for Adabas Natural mainframe environments should help organizations analyze migration requirements and sort out the options. One analyst looks at the risks involved in changing code base and moving applications
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Instant messaging accelerates data theft An instant messaging module boosts the ability of the notorious Zeus malware to transmit stolen data ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Mafiaboy speech a standing room only affair Michael Calce's keynote drew a crowd that spilled out of the convention centre's hall. How social engineering is still the lynchpin of successful hacking. WITH VIDEO
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hackers update Conficker worm, evade countermeasures A security software vendor says it has found evidence the perpetrators of the Conficker worm are trying to stymie attempts to register the addresses of the worm’s controllers. Find out how the industry is trying to kill Conficker
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Kaspersky says Web hack 'should not have happened' An engineer with the Russian security company blames the SQL injection threat on a programming flaw in a recent support site update. What the security vendor is doing about the problem
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Microsoft takes seven years to patch critical flaw Call it the seven year itch. It took that and a few months more for Microsoft to finally fix a bug in its server message block which allows attackers to grab control of computers in a corporate network 
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Unlock, unblock unravel – quest to untether iPhone continues Days after its launch in the U.S., it seems Apple's iPhone is still securely tethered to the AT&T network. And, so far at least, claims about the "significant progress" of efforts to unlock the device haven't amounted to much. 
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Germany passes antihacking law Hackers may want to avoid Germany, after the approval of a law that makes their activity a punishable crime. The legislation, which the German government proposed earlier last year and approved Friday with no changes, aims to crack down on the sharp rise in computer attacks in the public and private sectors.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
'Evil twin' Wi-Fi attacks on the rise The next time you splurge on a double latte and sip it while browsing the Internet via the cafe's Wi-Fi, beware of the "evil twin." That's the term for a Wi-Fi access point that appears to be a legitimate one offered on the premises, but actually has been set up by a hacker to eavesdrop on wireless communications among Internet surfers.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Nuclear Safety Commission of Canada hacked This past Wednesday the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) was attacked and hacked and it could have been somebody very bad sending a menacing message, says a Canadian security expert.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Putting a PAL to work Voice over IP - VoIP - is inevitable in government. It is the hottest area, and many government departments are exploring how they can take advantage of its benefits - like greater flexibility in service and features and possibly lower costs. This rating is reserved for the most critical problems.