Government online surveillance on rise in murky legal environment
U.S. government entities made the most number of requests for user data in the first half of this year
Antone Gonsalves | 14 Nov | Read more
U.S. government entities made the most number of requests for user data in the first half of this year
Antone Gonsalves | 14 Nov | Read more
Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them.
Lucian Constantin | 14 Nov | Read more
Customers of the popular CloudFlare website acceleration and security service were targeted in an email attack that directed them to a fake version of the website.
Lucian Constantin | 13 Nov | Read more
Bitdefender raises worry over trusting included antivirus software, but one analyst said Windows 8's core security picks up the slack
Antone Gonsalves | 12 Nov | Read more
Hacking could mark a censorship crackdown, expected as China's Communist Party begins meetings to set in motion a leadership change
Antone Gonsalves | 09 Nov | Read more
Commercial customers need to heed warnings from cyber thefts in Missouri, Maine
Taylor Armerding | 08 Nov | Read more
A federal judge in Ohio today rejected claims by Ohio Green Party co-chairman Bob Fitrakis that software that was recently installed on vote tabulation machines in more than two-dozen counties in the state, posed a threat to the integrity of ballots cast in today's General Election.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 Nov | Read more
The younger IT workforce is bringing major change to organizations -- whether those organizations like it or not.
George V. Hulme | 06 Nov | Read more
Vupen, a security company in the business of selling zero-day vulnerabilities, said Friday that it has found a way to bypass security mechanisms on Windows 8 and execute code via a Web page.
Antone Gonsalves | 02 Nov | Read more
Many Apache Web servers, including those hosting some popular websites, expose information about the internal structure of the sites they host, the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of their visitors, the resources users access and other potentially sensitive details because their status pages are left unprotected.
Lucian Constantin | 01 Nov | Read more
The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration, according to Fox-IT, the security company contracted by the Dutch government to investigate the incident.
Lucian Constantin | 31 Oct | Read more
DHS warns of increasing security risk to power utilities, water treatment plants and manufacturing
Antone Gonsalves | 30 Oct | Read more
CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for authentication, according to a report from security consultancy Digital Bond.
Lucian Constantin | 26 Oct | Read more
Security experts say Windows 8 is the most secure Microsoft OS to date, but that doesn't mean malware won't evolve to exploit it
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Oct | Read more
With 'Jesus' and '123456' topping SplashData's annual list of worst passwords, onus on IT to require stonger passwords, says expert
Antone Gonsalves | 25 Oct | Read more