Is your social network secure? Do you even know where the account security and privacy settings are, or what the default settings are? A recent survey conducted by <a href="http://www.eset.com/us/">ESET</a> illustrates the relative insecurity of social networks--which is alarming given the volume and sensitivity of information that is shared on them.
Tony Bradley | 24 Jun | Read more
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.
John Ribeiro | 23 Jun | Read more
Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Jun | Read more
Reader Ash wants to know if there's a way to password-protect individual folders in Windows 7:
Rick Broida | 23 Jun | Read more
A hacking group in the Netherlands promises to publish photos, phone numbers and addresses of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062111-lulzsec-census-denial.html?hpg1=bn&ap1=rcb">LulzSec</a> members in response to similar treatment by LulzSec.
Tim Greene | 23 Jun | Read more
Websites belonging to the Brazilian government and energy giant Petrobras were knocked offline Wednesday in a series of cyberattacks.
Robert McMillan | 23 Jun | Read more
If it sometimes appears that just about every company is getting hacked these days, that's because they are.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Jun | Read more
Hack attacks from online thugs such as Anonymous and LulzSec appear to signal a hacker Armageddon. Not only has Sony been relentlessly targeted by hackers this year so has the Central Intelligence Agency, Sega, PBS.com, the U.K. government, and dozens of other high-profile company and government agency Web sites.
With username and password prompts coming at users with every personal and professional login, every once in a while they're bound to forget which combinations go with which access requests.
Beth Schultz | 23 Jun | Read more
Unnoticed in the Tuesday release of Firefox 5 was Mozilla's decision to retire Firefox 4, the browser it shipped just three months ago.
Gregg Keizer | 22 Jun | Read more
Mistakes happen--Dropbox learned this the hard way when it accidentally left some user accounts open to the public for about four hours on Tuesday.
Jared Newman | 22 Jun | Read more
U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue hacking group Lulz Security.
Jeremy Kirk | 21 Jun | Read more
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has called for calm following the revelation that Apple has applied for a patent which could disable iPhones from video recording live music.
Tim Lohman | 21 Jun | Read more
It's almost the end of financial year, and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned companies and consumers to beware of phishing emails and telemarketing calls.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
Domain register and Web hosting provider, Distribute.IT, has been unable to recover any of the data hosted on its four servers following an [[artnid:390689|infrastructure hack|new]] last week by a group called Evil and is now transferring customers to other hosting providers.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
Once again, Facebook has messed with users' privacy in the name of a new feature.
Jared Newman | 18 Jun | Read more
Hollywood may have <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/12/19/riaa-lawsuits-2/">stopped its massive litigation campaigns</a> against illegal file swappers in 2008, but the piracy lawsuits are still flying. Now teams of lawyers working for certain small businesses are going after illegal file swappers. These businesses, often referred to as "copyright trolls," are attempting to turn the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/201335/filesharing_suits_about_fear_not_cash.html">threat of suing pirates</a> into a profitable cottage industry.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 17 Jun | Read more
Only hours after embarrassing the CIA by downing its website, hacking jokesters LulzSec have issued another self-declared indictment of the Internet's woeful security, leaking a database of 62,000 stolen passwords and user names.
John E Dunn | 17 Jun | Read more
Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about six million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest social network. Six million people jumping ship sounds like a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on track to hit 700 million users any day now, it's not such a big deal.
Brennon Slattery | 15 Jun | Read more
Online theft is a fact of life nowadays, but yesterday a BitCoin user woke to find his haul of virtual currency had been plundered.
Keir Thomas | 16 Jun | Read more