Google Buys Nest Just As Internet Of Things Suffers First Global Cyber Attack
Following this week’s announcement that Google has agreed to purchase connected home device maker Nest for $3.2 billion there has been a lot of speculation about whether Google can be trusted with our...
View ArticleIndia Rocked by Scandal: Minister’s wife found Dead after exposing his...
An Indian minister found his wife dead in a five-star hotel room yesterday shortly after she used Twitter to expose his alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist.
View ArticleZDNetGovWeek: Not so neutral net and President Obama says spy geeks are...
Net neutrality is pretty much being neutered and President Obama gave a big speech on spying, pretty much saying what you’d expect (except the metadata program might change if they can figure out how)....
View Article20 Million People Fall Victim to South Korea Data Leak
SEOUL – The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in...
View ArticleComputing targets new frontier of cars, home, and everything
ZDNet’s Monday Morning Opener: Smart devices, an internet of things, and the battle for the dashboard means computing is about to get more personal than ever.
View ArticleEncrypted ‘Blackphone’ Goes to War with Snoopers
WASHINGTON – It’s a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress...
View ArticleObama’s proposed NSA ‘reform’ changes nothing
Obama’s speech announcing a ‘reform’ of NSA surveillance changes little. It even opens the way for more sophisticated NSA hacking operations than ever before.
View ArticleBank data of 20 million customers leaked in South Korea
The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators say, in one of the country’s biggest ever breaches.
View ArticleTarget Compounds Its Hacking Debacle Problems
I’ve mentioned before that I was one of the 40 million people whose credit and debit card accounts were compromised by the massive hacking attack at the retailer, a theft that has only grown in size as...
View ArticleUS Lawmakers Say Snowden Was ‘Helped’ by Foreign Power
WASHINGTON – Edward Snowden may have acted in concert with a foreign power in exposing US surveillance programs, two Republican lawmakers suggested Sunday. “I think there are some interesting questions...
View ArticleNew snoop-resistant smartphone to protect your privacy
Blackphone is described by its makers as ‘the world’s first smartphone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else.’
View ArticleComputer Security Expert: Obamacare Website Security Much Worse Off Than...
The Obamacare website is even less secure than it was in November, David Kennedy, head of computer security consulting firm TrustedSec LLC, told Fox News Sunday .
View ArticleHow Cybercriminals Attacked Target: Analysis
In the wake of the credit card data breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus, and possibly several other retailers around the country, much of the discussion has focused on point-of-sale malware, RAM scrapers...
View ArticleSecurity Researcher Confirms Starbucks Has Fixed Its iOS App
Last week, security researcher Daniel Wood revealed that the Starbucks iOS app was storing users credentials and their locations in log files. Starbucks has rolled out an update for the buggy...
View ArticleBluebox Security Raises $18 Million to Tackle Enterprise Mobile Threats
Tenaya Capital Joins Andreessen Horowitz, Andreas Bechtolsheim, and SV Angel in $18 Million Funding Round Bluebox Security, a San Francisco, California-based mobile security company that has been...
View ArticleVietnam’s ‘cyber troops’ take fight to US, France
Working on her blog in California one day, Vietnamese democracy activist Ngoc Thu sensed something was wrong.
View Article“123456” Named Worst Password of 2013
123456 has been named the worst password of 2013. This isnt surprising, considering that most of the users impacted in the Adobe breach had used the sequence of digits as their password. According to...
View ArticleWebsite of Monsanto Korea Hacked and Defaced by Anonymous
Anonymous hackers continue the campaign called Operation Green Rights. Their latest target is the South Korean website of Monsanto (monsantokorea.com), the US-based chemical and agricultural...
View ArticleSCADA Zero-Day Patched After Disclosure
A company that specializes in software for critical infrastructure companies has fixed a serious vulnerability exposed by a security researcher. Malaysia-based Ecava makes human-machine interface/SCADA...
View ArticleA10 Networks Launches High Performance DDoS Attack Protection Appliances
A10 Networks, a company that makes application networking products, has launched a new line of standalone, high performanceDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection appliances targeted to service...
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