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Study: Nefarious Apps Easily Slip Past Jelly Bean Security

December 17, 2012

The findings weren't very sweet when researchers tested Android 4.2 Jelly Bean's beefed-up security. Of the 1,260 malware samples the team at North Carolina State University tossed at the OS, only 15 percent of them were detected by Google's app verification service. By contrast, Android anti-malwar...

Cops Seek Law Requiring 2-Year SMS Storage

December 10, 2012

A number of law enforcement groups are lobbying Congress to add provisions to a bill revamping the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act that would require wireless carriers to archive text messages for as long as two years. There may be reasons for companies to archive messages -- but simply f...

Bill Closing Email Privacy Loophole Clears Committee

December 3, 2012

A bill to protect email privacy cleared a key U.S. Senate committee last week, buoying the spirits of privacy advocates. The proposed law would close a loophole in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which allows the government to peep on email more than 180 days old without a warrant. "...

Skype Takes Heat for Security - Both Too Little and Too Much

November 19, 2012

Microsoft had to temporarily disable Skype's password reset feature last week after a Russian hacker revealed a simple way to lock users out of their accounts. All an attacker needed to know was an email address associated with an account in order to hijack it. That address could be used to create a...

Stuxnet Spotted Stateside in Chevron Computers

November 12, 2012

Chevron was infected with the Stuxnet malware in 2010, the company revealed last week, raising concerns about the effectiveness of cyberweapons as a policy tool. Because of Stuxnet's design, it didn't do any damage to Chevron's computers, but the fact that a cyberweapon created to attack Iran's nucl...

Study: Google Play Apps Go Beyond Need-to-Know

November 5, 2012

An analysis of more than 400,000 apps in the Google Play store has revealed that more than 100,000 of them pose a potential security risk to their users. The analysis of the Android apps released last week by cyber security vendor Bit9 examined the security permissions requested by the programs. It ...

Legacy Applications a Threat to Windows 8 Security

October 29, 2012

Windows 8 finally made it to prime time last week. This version of Microsoft's operating system makes significant improvements in its security stance, said Alex Balan, a senior product manager at Bitdefender, but some of them are likely to be undermined by users wedded to old programs. The way the W...

Bogus Apps Litter Android With Malware

October 22, 2012

Android is one of the most popular mobile operating systems in the world. As a result, it's also one of the most popular mobile operating systems to be targeted by malware writers. Malware aimed at Google's Android platform increased sixfold during the quarter that ended in September, according to a...

Panetta Sounds Clarion Call for Cybersecurity Action

October 15, 2012

While U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta did some silicon saber-rattling last week by raising the prospect of a preemptive strike against cyberattacks, he also delivered a wake-up call to Wall Street and Congress about cybersecurity. Panetta's message to the business leaders gathered at a meetin...

Big Businesses Walloped With Climbing Cybercrime Costs

October 8, 2012

Cybercrime costs continued to climb in 2012 according to a report released Monday by the Ponemon Institute. The study of 56 large organizations showed that the average annualized cost of cybercrime for the businesses was $8.9 million a year compared to $8.4 million a year ago. Losses for the firms...

Tizzy Over Bank Cyberattacks Unwarranted, Say Researchers

October 1, 2012

A week-long cyber attack on some of the nation's largest banks last week most likely wasn't the Armageddon headline writers made it out to be. "It's ridiculous to consider an attack that takes your website offline for a few hours the world's worst nightmare scenario," said Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia ...

Feds Back Projects to Bolster Online ID Verification

September 24, 2012

When Paul Steiner published his 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," little did he know it would become a mantra among security professionals, especially those concerned about authenticating identities on the Net. The job of finding ways to i...

Hacker Claims Old-School Tactic Brought GoDaddy to Its Knees

September 17, 2012

Someone with the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r made a grab for 15 minutes of fame last week by claiming responsibility for taking down the network for Internet's largest registrar, GoDaddy. GoDaddy discredited that claim. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," CEO Scott Wagner ...

ID Theft Gives Apple Another Security Black Eye

September 10, 2012

Once upon a time, security shiners involving Apple were as rare as Windows Vista lovers, but now it seems that a week doesn't go by without the name of Steve Jobs' baby being dragged through the digital mud. Last week's episode involved the hacktivist group AntiSec and the FBI. AntiSec claimed it co...

Java Patch May Be Just a Finger in the Dam

September 4, 2012

Oracle acted swiftly last week to close a zero-day vulnerability in its Java technology, but given Java's track record, that patch is just one hit in a long game of wackamole played with hackers. A number of security companies discovered the vulnerability over the weekend of Aug. 25. They noticed th...
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