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Chinese websites with the ".cn" domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported. Two attacks reportedly were launched -- the first at midnight on Sunday and the second at 4 p.m. China's Ministr...
Standards can be a way to get organizations to do things you want them to do, but oftentimes they don't get them to do much more. The writers of payment-card standards appear to have been acutely aware of that phenomenon when the PCI Security Standards Council previewed their new PCI DSS 3.0 standar...
The hacker who uncovered a bug on Facebook earlier this week may indeed get a reward for his efforts, but not from the social network itself. After it became clear that Facebook would not pay Khalil Shreateh a bug bounty for his discovery, arguing that he had violated the site's Terms of Service, a ...
Brazil has proposed new laws that would force e-businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers to store personal data about said customers on local servers. Google and Facebook have raised objections to the plan, saying that such requirements would, in the words of Facebook Brazil, "entail huge costs ...
London editor Alan Rusbridger wrote a column Monday detailing how British law enforcement had destroyed hard drives at his newspaper's offices. The destruction was purportedly to prevent additional leaks about the National Security Agency. Prior to destroying the hard drives, Rusbridger writes, an o...
Facebook, which offers a bounty of $500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers' accounts without authorization. The programmer, Khalil Shreate...
The partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist with The Guardian who has published a slew of articles detailing National Security Agency surveillance programs, was detained for nearly nine hours Sunday at London's Heathrow Airport. Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, was en route from Berlin to his ...
The Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday claimed credit for hack attacks that took control of portions of a handful of major U.S. news sites via an article-recommendation service they all use. SEA reportedly gained control of them by entering an administration portal for Outbrain and inserting links i...
China's Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center are teaming up to probe IBM, Oracle and EMC over security issues. The upcoming investigation could be more than a simple tit-for-tat in the ongoing cybersaga between the U.S. and China. The probe follows Edward Snowden's allegat...
A hacker was able to gain access to a baby monitor on Saturday night, terrifying a Texas couple as they heard the virtual intruder speak offensively to their sleeping daughter. The parents use an Internet-connected baby monitor that is equipped with a camera to monitor the activity in their 2-year-o...
A recent tweet from Al-Qaeda asking for ideas on the "development of jihadist media" set off a deluge of responses mocking the extremist group. Terrorism expert J.M. Berger, who has more than 13,000 followers, tweeted about Al-Qaeda's call for ideas along with the Islamic hashtag the group wanted to...
Hackers have hit the website of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile established by the Dalai Lama in 1959 after he was forced out of Tibet, according to Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Kurt Baumgartner. They installed some code that redirects visitors from ...
Content management systems like WordPress and Joombla have become popular targets for hackers in recent times because flaws in those systems can be leveraged for mischief across literally millions of websites. WordPress is running on some 73 million websites and Joomla some 35 million, so if you're ...
Norway's government will not allow Apple to take aerial photos of Oslo, the Norwegian capital, in the company's quest to create 3D images for its mapping app. Satellite images of Norway are fair game, but taking aerial photos requires a license, and Apple's request has been denied. There is reported...
Android device owners who use Bitcoins may have their digital currency stolen because of a security flaw in Android, the Bitcoin Foundation has warned. The problem may lie in Android's implementation of the java.security.SecureRandom application programming interface in Java. It was first publicized...
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