Microsoft begs customers: Just hold on to those pen-test reports until you've fully read them
We appreciate the thought, but don't send us a report that was intended for your organization.
We appreciate the thought, but don't send us a report that was intended for your organization.
You won't have to remember your Microsoft password ever again with the new Microsoft Authenticator app.
Online gaming can be a nasty business, with some sore losers targeting others to take out their frustrations. Skype recently took action to make that harder.
Microsoft’s September Tuesday update has 12 security bulletins to address 55 vulnerabilities, including one Office graphics image bug that has reportedly been used in limited targeted attacks on customers.
Congress is losing sleep over the possibility other nations could endanger web security, and now it wants the four major browser makers to weigh in. The House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce recently sent letters to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla with questions about how the backbone of HTTPS security could be violated.
"If you block the internet for access to activism or investigative journalism, no one will care. But block their access to cute cats, there will be blood on the streets”.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Jun | Read more
Skype users, beware: there's an eight-character phrase that will lock people out of the popular video chat and messaging service's apps on most devices where it's available.
Blair Hanley Frank | 03 Jun | Read more
You don't have to be a celebrity to get nailed by a nude photo. According to a report by Trend Micro, sextortion--the use of compromising photos or videos to extract money from victims--is on the rise.
Tony Bradley | 08 Apr | Read more
Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear.
In recent weeks, I've written about protecting data stored locally on a hard drive, against both people with physical access and potential remote attacks. But your data is much more vulnerable in transit, as it passes between end points or via servers.
Glenn Fleishman | 19 Feb | Read more
Possible Hezbollah connection to malware attacks
John E Dunn | 04 Feb | Read more
The new head of UK "listening centre" GCHQ has called on social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to co-operate more with the authorities to block terrorists using their networks.
Antony Savvas | 05 Nov | Read more
Establishment and expansion of Australian information-security centres of excellence is becoming increasingly appealing to private and public-sector organisations that are finding them invaluable partners in the race to keep up with malware threats, according to the regional head of cyber security at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (SAI).
David Braue | 26 Sep | Read more
Wikileaks has released what it claims are previously unknown fourth-generation versions of the controversial ‘government' FinFisher spyware, lambasting the German Government for allowing it to be sold to "some of the most abusive regimes in the world."
John E. Dunn | 16 Sep | Read more
The website 4Chan is infamous for birthing Anonymous--and more recently the major alleged iCloud hack that exposed the private photos of several celebrities. But some who frequent 4Chan, it seems, have nobler intentions.