A new feature in Android keeps your passcode protected smartphone unlocked when it’s on your body — a move that reduces the hassle of typing a passcode but also leaves devices exposed to muggers.
Google has quietly stopped requiring that Android OEMs enable full-disk encryption by default in new Android 5.0 Lollipop devices, backtracking on its widely publicised plan to make life harder for snoops and police.
Google's not just picking on Windows. The search company's Project Zero initiative recently published three unpatched bugs in OS X, 90 days after the group privately disclosed the issues to Apple. The new publications bring the number of unfixed security vulnerabilities in OS X discovered by Google to six, according to the Project Zero database.
Anonabox, a piece of home networking equipment designed to allow you to connect to the Internet anonymously, had raised nearly $600,000 in pledges on Kickstarter--blowing its $7500 goal out of the water. But on Friday, Kickstarter suspended the project, according to Ars Technica.
Nick Mediati | 20 Oct | Read more
Most of the stories coming out the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences highlight the latest crop of horrendous security flaws discovered by hackers. But it's not all doom and gloom. There were also presentations from developers actively trying to make digital security better for all.
If you're a WordPress.com user you'll want to be extra cautious the next time you're tempted to whip up a blog post from your local coffee shop. If anyone on the same open connection is using a networking sniffing tool like Firesheep, your WordPress.com account could be easily hacked.
Computerworld offers a Tip of the Hat to Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica for an incisive look at how only a potential disaster could convince top tech execs to finally help fund the OpenSSL and other open-source projects.
Mike Bucken | 25 Apr | Read more
Sometimes a security patch isn't all it's cracked up to be. The security researcher who first found a vulnerability affecting more than 20 different router models says the patch meant to fix it only hides the initial weakness and doesn't remove it whatsoever.
The hacking Vikings have hit Samsung-owned web TV sharing service Boxee.tv, reportedly pillaging a 158,000 user database of forum users later posted to a Tor Internet site and at least one researcher.
John E Dunn | 03 Apr | Read more
A respected security researcher has reported finding an apparently new type of malware that infects all operating systems, resists even low-level attempts to remove it and can communicate with other infected PCs even when both systems are isolated from one another.
John E Dunn | 05 Nov | Read more
Despite Microsoft’s efforts to make its User Access Control (UAC) security prompts less annoying, many users are still turning it off and in doing so helping thieves do their job, according to Microsoft.