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Cyber warfare in sights at government training conference

2012-05-18T10:29:41Z

The prospect of cyberwar means the U.S. needs to 'rethink every aspect of defense,' says one summit presenter

Social Networking Security in the Workplace

2012-05-18T10:12:34Z

At any given moment today, on-the-clock employees are updating their social media status, reading feeds and networking on business media sites. Moments can stretch to minutes: A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that 60 percent of social media users spend at least 30 minutes a day on these sites while at work.

Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon

2012-05-18T08:01:24Z

Twitter has announced support for "Do Not Track," immediately implementing it to halt online tracking of users who trigger a setting in their browsers.

Flashback Mac Trojan earned $14,000 from ad clicks, Symantec

2012-05-18T06:10:00Z

Symantec originally thought that at its peek the Flashback Trojan was generating around $10,000 a day by hijacking ad clicks. Now, new research suggests the developers may only have earned $14,000 during the time that the malware was active.

Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack

2012-05-18T05:55:00Z

A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that the bittorent website has been suffering for the last 24 hours.

Windows 8 Security: What's New

2012-05-18T05:48:00Z

When Windows 8 comes out later this year, the new Start screen and Metro-style apps will likely be the first changes you'll notice, but those aren't the only things that are new. Microsoft is also making some serious security enhancements to help keep your system safer and to improve Windows' ability to combat viruses and malware. It just may be the biggest improvement to Windows security yet.

New approaches to combat 'sources of evil' and other security issues

2012-05-18T05:04:08Z

Eric Cole of the SANS Institute says threats to our networks have changed but the way we approach security hasn't changed. As a result, companies have spent heavily on security technologies but they are still getting compromised. He suggests some new approaches.

Android in enterprises 'severely limited' by weak management support from Google

2012-05-18T16:25:00Z

Adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in large businesses has been "severely limited" because of the complexities of managing the various Android models and versions, market research firm Gartner said in an evaluation of 20 mobile device management software vendors.

Will voluntary cyber threat sharing plan cast doubt over CISPA?

2012-05-17T12:29:00Z

The question of whether CISPA is really necessary might arise in the wake of a Department of Defense announcement last week that as many as 1,000 defense contractors -- and possibly thousands more -- may voluntarily join an expanded program of sharing classified information on cyber threats with the federal government.

Anonymous Takes Aim at Indian Government

2012-05-17T10:07:00Z

In retaliation against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocking some video-sharing and torrent websites like The Pirate Bay under Indian court orders, Anonymous, the "hacktivist" organization, today took down the websites of the ruling Congress Party and the Supreme Court of India. Anonymous, which in the past has been credited with taking down the websites of the MPAA, RIAA, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and child pornographers, took down these sites in what is understood to be DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust

2012-05-17T08:25:00Z

The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said today.

Cyber spies exploiting Java, Flash flaws

2012-05-17T07:34:00Z

Such activity is often paid for, or sanctioned by, government agencies

Cisco's wireless unit shifts emphasis to "mobility"

2012-05-18T13:55:28Z

Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit doesn't actually talk so much about wireless networking these days. Increasingly, its message aimed at IT groups is about the broader concept of "mobility."

US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks

2012-05-17T07:54:00Z

More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.

Android malware using real apps as disguise 'wrappers'

2012-05-17T07:39:00Z

Mobile malware stepped up an order of magnitude in volume and sophistication during 2011 and this trend has continued in the first quarter of 2012, according to F-Secure's latest quarterly report.

Doctors warned not to use social media with patients

2012-05-17T06:47:14Z

Doctors are being cautioned by hospitals they work with to avoid interacting with patients on social media, and that they reject any overtures by patients to interact on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

UK man jailed for Facebook hack

2012-05-17T05:15:00Z

A man from West Sussex has been sent to jail for 12 months after hacking into a private Facebook account.

Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

2012-05-17T16:32:00Z

SSD maker RunCore's InVincible SSD can wipe your data using one of two methods: overwriting the entire disk with meaningless code or frying it with voltage.

Social media a boon for businesses, but creates security quagmire

2012-05-17T16:22:32Z

Social media -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth -- has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.

Android hackers honing skills in Russia

2012-05-17T12:30:00Z

The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers.