Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
Robert McMillan | 12 Aug | Read more
Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
Robert McMillan | 12 Aug | Read more
A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city's network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday.
Robert McMillan | 09 Aug | Read more
A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets has been around for much longer than previously thought, according to security experts investigating the malicious software.
Robert McMillan | 06 Aug | Read more
Depression-era bank robber Slick Willie Sutton is famous for saying that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." If he were around today, he'd have other options.
Robert McMillan | 06 Aug | Read more
Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phoney accounts with the company's services.
Robert McMillan | 04 Aug | Read more
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
Robert McMillan | 03 Aug | Read more
Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice.
Robert McMillan | 29 Jul | Read more
It's one of the best things about the Defcon hacking conference, and one of its most closely guarded secrets: the programmable badge that's handed out to show attendees every year.
Robert McMillan | 29 Jul | Read more
Computers in Iran have been hardest hit by a dangerous computer worm that tries to steal information from industrial control systems.
Robert McMillan | 24 Jul | Read more
The GSM technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.
Robert McMillan | 22 Jul | Read more
Siemens confirmed Tuesday that one of its customers has been hit by a new worm designed to steal secrets from industrial control systems.
Robert McMillan | 21 Jul | Read more
Siemens is warning customers of a new and highly sophisticated virus that targets the computers used to manage large-scale industrial control systems used by manufacturing and utility companies.
Robert McMillan | 18 Jul | Read more
You already know the basics of internet security, right?
Robert McMillan | 20 Jul | Read more
New York's Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit.
Robert McMillan | 30 Jun | Read more
Online criminals are scanning the Internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven't had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, Symantec said Wednesday.
Robert McMillan | 03 Jun | Read more