Think grandma and grandpa are the most likely to fall for Internet scams? Think again, suggests a study on gullibility released earlier this month. ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 01.12.2012 | Technology
If the movie biz wants to continue a destructive campaign of some sort, it should start by looking in the mirror, and then at the movie theaters and then at the other activities that also compete for the time, attention and money of moviegoers.
Shelly Yachimovich | Posted 01.23.2012 | Technology
The unrestricted flow of information over the Internet and social networks provides an opportunity to one of mankind's most glorious times. If we don't protect the public, this could easily become a mean of chaos, repression and dominance.
AP | Posted 12.08.2011 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo has won a $610 million court judgment in a scam that tried to dupe people into believing they had won prizes in a lottery the I...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 01.30.2012 | Business
This year 40% of consumers will have their information misused. Given the just as staggering figures for online crimes against businesses, what are companies supposed to do?
Susan Landau | Posted 01.28.2012 | Technology
With cyber security a national priority, Hollywood would like to make it harder to determine whether a website is legitimate. Yes, you read those words correctly; Hollywood is lobbying for a bill that would derail current efforts to secure the network.
Edward J. Black | Posted 01.01.2012 | Politics
Author's Note: While this is not an actual intercepted diplomatic cable, I can imagine similar sentiments have been communicated. This legislation is...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 01.02.2012 | Entertainment
I decided to watch the most recent episode of The Amazing Race after a night of walking the neighborhood streets with my six-year-old in search of the...
Belinda Parmar | Posted 12.10.2011 | Technology
Anyone in possession of my phone has the potential to access to my contacts, social networking accounts, home and work information and credit card details. It's like having your purse and your laptop stolen simultaneously. (As well as your cell phone. Obviously.)
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 11.27.2011 | Technology
Hackers are literally creating and launching new viruses every day. That means that these invaluable updates are needed frequently.
AP | By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 10.06.2011 | Crime
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a d...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 10.02.2011 | Technology
Until recently, Airbnb was not tossed around in the average news cycle. However, since a story recently broke about malicious use of rented property and Airbnb's apparent woeful management of the crisis, the name is everywhere... and not in a good way.
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.26.2011 | Technology
Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached. ...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 09.25.2011 | Technology
For companies that can be broken if their security breaks, headlines like "Phone Hacking Scandal" should garner special attention. Herein lies an opportunity for cell carriers to pause and consider what types of security mechanisms are in place.
AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 09.24.2011 | Weird News
NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities on Monday sought a man responsible for calling in a fake hostage report that targeted a well-known Internet security ...
Bloomberg | Michael Riley and Sandrine Rastello | Posted 09.21.2011 | Technology
Investigators probing the recent ransacking of International Monetary Fund computers have concluded the attack was carried out by cyber spies connecte...
The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.13.2011 | Technology
Foreign hackers infiltrated the network of a defense contractor in March, stealing 24,000 military files in a single intrusion, Deputy Defense Secreta...
MSNBC | Matt Liebowitz | Posted 09.10.2011 | Technology
Microsoft disabled the search function on its Safety and Security Center this past weekend after scammers hijacked it to redirect queries to porn site...
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 08.23.2011 | Technology
Grooming is a seemingly innocuous process by which an online predator -- in this case, the counselor -- finds an "in" with the child
Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 08.22.2011 | Technology
It's comforting to think that everyone on dating sites is just as earnest as you are: looking for love and hoping to find a soul mate. Sadly, even the online dating world has scammers.
Juliette Powell | Posted 07.31.2011 | Technology
How vulnerable is the internet to such a break-down? It's already gone down twice.
Robert Siciliano | Posted 07.19.2011 | Technology
More than 40 million people subscribe to online dating services, and millions of those subscribers develop intimate, albeit virtual relationships with anonymous strangers. It's not as difficult as you might imagine to get swindled out of your money this way.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 07.12.2011 | Technology
WASHINGTON — Companies that run critical U.S. industries such as power plants would get government incentives to make sure their systems are sec...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.06.2011 | Technology
NEW YORK -- Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony, apologized to customers Thursday for the "inconvenience and concern" caused by an attack on Sony's compu...
Susan Landau | Posted 06.19.2011 | Technology
The calculation is that on balance, the U.S. is better off with the deployment of strong cryptography than not. Each of these steps makes it easier for civilians to communicate securely.
redtape.msnbc.msn.com | Posted 01.16.2012 | Fifty