Most Hacking Victims Blame Themselves: Symantec
Just under two-thirds of all Internet users have been hit by some sort of cybercrime, and while most of them are angry about it, a surprisingly large ...
Just under two-thirds of all Internet users have been hit by some sort of cybercrime, and while most of them are angry about it, a surprisingly large ...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011
Facebook and Twitter have received failing grades from Digital Society, a "digital think tank," that created an "Online Services Security Report Card"...
Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
So-called "carding" websites are providing criminals with online forums to buy and sell stolen identification and financial information. Don't get trapped in the net.
The Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 05.25.2011
A recent MIT graduate acknowledged yesterday that he met and exchanged multiple e-mails with the Army private accused of providing thousands of classi...
computer.howstuffworks.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Harassing a handful of Web sites is one thing, but does one hacker have the technological wherewithal to bring down an entire country's network? In a ...
Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011
Did Michael Chertoff, former director of Homeland Security, seriously suggest the possibility of responding with special forces to takeout the servers...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The federal agency in charge of securing the government's computer systems is unable to monitor the networks or analyze threats in ...
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computerworld.com | Robert McMillan | Posted 05.25.2011
Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit ...
The Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 05.25.2011
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecu...
AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 05.25.2011
MOSCOW — The Web site of Russia's highest-profile independent newspaper has been paralyzed for a week by a sustained attack from hackers, its de...
Chris Brassington | Posted 05.25.2011
Make sure you are aware of the sheer extent of personal data you are storing and exchanging on your mobile, and take steps to prevent that from getting into the wrong hands
Ari Herzog | Posted 05.25.2011
Be yourself and write like the passionate scribe you decided to be when you created your first post. Don't worry about comments or shares. Don't worry about page rank.
Robert Siciliano | Posted 05.25.2011
There's an excessive amount of trust in the Facebook world. When people login to the social-networking website, they drop their sense of cynicism; they feel they have no reason to distrust.
Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz | Posted 05.25.2011
Just as public roads and public airspace need to be closed to securely transport the President, we need to create Securenet as a closed, secure kind of limited access information superhighway for infrastructure communications.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011
A lot of coverage on Google's announcement has pointed out that it has a minority of the market in China. But Google's users tend to be among China's elite: academics, businesspeople, and other professionals
Register | Posted 05.25.2011
In all, there were 10,028 pairs of user names and passwords posted to multiple pages of public upload website Pastebin.com, some of which remained liv...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in Jan...
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011
Even if Google packs up -- and I highly doubt even the "do no evil" company would leave the world's fastest growing economy -- would the move change China's censorship regime, or prevent further hacking?
wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011
If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cy...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Climate conspriricists pounced at the opportunity to draw grandiose conclusions from the illegal hacking of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Janis Sharp, the mother of a British hacker who the United States intends to extradite for "the biggest military computer hack ever," issued a compell...
Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
When any government demands control of its citizens' computers, the world must take note. I urge the technology community to tell Beijing that control through mandatory software is unacceptable.
New York Times | JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 05.25.2011
Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it. Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade st...
New York Times | John Markoff | Posted 05.25.2011
A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government n...
nytimes.com | ROBERT MCMILLAN of IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG | Posted 05.25.2011