- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Research released last week fingered the iPhone as the source of a text messaging exploit that could be used to steal sensitive information from smartphone users or work mischief on their hardware. The flaw, revealed by a well-known security researcher and jailbreaker of iPhones, involves the "reply...
Most cars nowadays come with driver and passenger airbags. It's a great safety feature that's helped save numerous lives since installing them routinely has become the norm. But sometimes, though it is rare, airbags fail to deploy even when circumstances arise where they should. Ask yourself: How ...
A well-known iOS hacker who uses the handle "pod2g" revealed a flaw in Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, that he says can be exploited to alter the "reply to" information in SMS messages. Such a tactic could be used by cybermiscreants to pry sensitive information from the recipient of a message ...
Yet another malware attack has emerged in the Middle East. Called "Shamoon," it's hit computers in Saudi Aramco's network, causing a sudden disruption. The specific malware delivered is being referred to as "W32.Disttrack" by Symantec. The attack as a whole was named "Shamoon" after the title of a f...
Law enforcement agencies may be able to freely track cellphone users without first getting a probable-cause warrant thanks to a ruling handed down by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Jose on Tuesday. The 2-1 ruling in the case of convicted drug trafficker and money launderer M...
German data protection regulators reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, claiming the social network failed to comply with official requests to alter its policies to match European regulations. The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of In...
Kaspersky Lab is reaching out for help to crack the security of the Gauss malware, which it discovered recently. It's still not known how people get infected with the malware, Kaspersky Lab said. The purpose of the "Palida Narrow" font Gauss installs hasn't been figured out, either. But the most int...
The makers of a video surveillance program developed by former United States Central Intelligence Agency staffers attempted to sell their system to several big-name tech firms, according to leaked memos. One of several internal emails written by executives at intelligence firm Stratfor has been pub...
The attack last week on journalist Mat Honan's iCloud account has the potential to strip the silver lining from the cybernimbus. Honan had his digital life destroyed when hackers, in a convoluted effort to hijack his Twitter account, ended up trashing everything connected to his Apple iCloud account...
Hackers have hit Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming network, stealing users' email addresses, the answers to their personal security questions, and information relating to mobile and dial-in authenticators. The intruders hit the company's North American servers, which support players in North Ameri...
The fallout from the Flame malware that was identified in May continues. Ongoing research into the malware has led antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab to discover a new malware platform, which it has named "Gauss." This platform has several similarities to Flame, Kaspersky said. "There's no doubt Gauss c...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a ruling by a lower court judge who had awarded $40,800 in damages and $2.5 million in attorney fees to the now-defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. This is the latest chapter in what has been a five-year challenge to the Bush administra...
As digital horror stories go, Mat Honan's is a doozy. The Wired reporter had his iCloud account hacked and had his digital life wiped from cyberspace. Honan's attackers used a combination of tech savvy and social engineering. They used his public LinkedIn page to obtain his Gmail address. Then they ...
There is a new natural-language, speech-based virtual assistant in town: Nuance on Monday introduced Nina to rival Apple's Siri. Nina can be used by smartphone application developers -- or any other type of user who would like to deploy the technology's mix of speech recognition, text-to-speech and ...
In the movies, hackers often type away at a keyboard and somehow -- movie magic, perhaps -- manage to crack a network's security and access encrypted files and protected data. In real life, bypassing security measures can be as simple as sweet-talking tech support. That is how tech journalist Mat Ho...
Loading ...
