Social media may make undercover police work impossible. Keeping identity secret is becoming an impossible task and even if you protect yourself, others can upload pictures of you without a thought. More...
A report from the Wall Street Journal has discovered a number of websites using a form of browser cookie that is difficult to trace, even harder to remove, and able to harvest far more data. More...
University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee campus was attacked and up to 75,000 social security numbers were exposed. School officials say that the system didn't contain any financial information or grades. More...
Microsoft has plans to fix 22 vulnerabilities this month in 13 bulletins, two of them being critical to Windows and Internet Explorer. More...
AxCrypt is used to share and work with stored documents, and e-mail attachments, in a secure manner. If your documents reside on a document sharing service, intranet or file server AxCrypt is especially well suited and... More...
A man who compromised half a million Facebook accounts has given himself up to FBI agents in California. More...
McAfee has uncovered a five-year hacking campaign affecting governments and organisations around the world. The evidence appears to point to one culprit - and for once, Anonymous may not be to blame. More...
More vulnerabilities have been found after Stuxnet infected Iranian programmable logic controllers designed by Siemens. More...
Microsoft is offering over $250,000 for researchers who develop the best cyber security defenses as part of the company's BlueHat Prize. More...
Facebook has chosen to reward users for finding and reporting bugs with their website. Researchers who repeatedly report issues with the service will be paid, with payment starting at $500, with no 'ceiling' limit. However,... More...
Randy Vickers, director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (or US-CERT, as it is also known), has chosen to resign, effective immediately. Vickers made the decision to leave on Friday although confirmations have... More...
While many people have learned to not trust suspicious emails that they may receive, regardless of whether it looks like it’s from a friend or not, the same level of mistrust is not inherent on... More...
In an unexpected move from Google, the company has now placed malware infection warnings in search results for users whose connections appear suspicious with the search giant. As seen in the image below, the large... More...
With computer security on the minds of more people lately due to an increase in high profile cyber attacks, PC processor maker Intel is preparing to reveal details of a new kind of security technology... More...
While Lulzsec took the spotlight yesterday afternoon in its successful defacement of The Sun’s website, displaying an article that claimed Rupert Murdoch had died, the FBI was busy following through on search warrants in NY... More...
The latest NSS Labs report is in, and the findings show that Internet Explorer completely dominates all other browsers when it comes to preventing socially engineered malware. For those that aren’t aware, socially engineered malware... More...
Shoulder surfing, the act of secretly watching someone as they type in their password, has always been a popular attack method used in stealing information. It can be as simple as watching the person in... More...
Today, Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn admitted that in March, foreign hackers managed to obtain thousands of files on the United States “most sensitive systems” through the Pentagon. This revelation came about as the Pentagon... More...
One of the world leading email provides is stepping up their security for all their users. Since the beginning of email, spam has always been a problem that is very hard to combat. As spammers continue... More...
With more and more data being placed into the ubiquitous cloud, it’s becoming ever more important for users to read the terms of service and privacy policies that companies put out. Although studies show that... More...
Dropbox, a popular tool used for sharing files between computers and friends, recently updated their Terms of Service. They attempted to reduce some of the tedious legalese in order to make it easier for normal... More...
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use,... More...
After having to spend a couple of extra days in jail, the 19-year old UK resident accused of being associated with the LulzSec hacking group is now out but with some restrictions. The Daily Mirror... More...
Apparently Travelodge has suffered an attack on its customer database. A spokesman for the chain says that a "third party" had managed to obtain names and email addresses, according to the BBC. The company has... More...
Over the past 50 days Lulzsec has been drawing a lot of attention as they hacked many websites and released sensitive information to the Internet. In a posting today, Lulzsec said that they are stopping... More...
According to a recent study, 90 percent of United States businesses have fallen victim to some sort of cyber security breach in the last 12 months. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute for Juniper Networks,... More...
After months of attacks on government and corporate websites LulzSec have finally offered a ceasefire on all targets. However there’s a catch. Through their occasional means of communication, they tweeted, “If President Obama wears a... More...
If you are still using the fourth version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser you might want to quickly update to the recently launched fifth version of Firefox right about now. Venture Beat reports that Mozilla... More...
A serious Dropbox bug allowed anyone into another users account, without a correct password for hours yesterday. According to Techcrunch, the security vulnerability was opened after a code update at 1:54 PM PST, allowing anybody to... More...
If you were counting on WebGL support in upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, you're out of luck for now. Microsoft made the decision to not support WebGL in its current form due to serious security... More...
It looks like the attackers have been having fun focusing on Android in recent months by releasing various pieces of malware posing as innocent looking software on the various Android marketplaces. This has brought up... More...
A recent Microsoft survey reveals that scammers are turning to traditional telephone landlines for baiting their victims to hand over money, instead of relying solely on phishing emails or fake advertisements on websites. The survey... More...
Lulz Security has had an absolutely blazing day yesterday, hacking not only the United States Senate.gov address but also taking down the Escapist M agazine, Mine craft and EVE Online in a self-proclaimed “Titanic... More...
Some data collected anonymously from users of an iOS application freely available on the App Store suggests that a good amount of people don't bother picking secure passcodes for their mobile devices. The most common... More...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that they have been targeted by what they called “a sophisticated cyber-attack”. According to the BBC website, officials at the fund didn’t give out many details, but said that... More...
Sony's recent attacks from hacker groups, the most recent of which saw Sony BMG falling victim, have been estimated to cost the company within the region of $1 billion. But while users see the figure... More...
While some may believe they're invulnerable on their computer, a new threat has surfaced which specifically targets Mozilla's Firefox browser. Obviously computer threats have been a common problem since the dawn of the world wide... More...
Researchers at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing have announced the completion of a replica code-breaking machine used by the Allied forces in World War II. Taking three years to complete, the Tunny machine is... More...
Have we reached a tipping point on the Internet where companies who are not breached are the exception rather than the norm? Reading the headlines every day, it sure seems like it with companies like... More...
One of the roadblocks that Apple has faced in entering the enterprise market has been its perceived lack of security when compared to competitors such as RIM’s Blackberry phones. With iOS 4, Apple released hardware... More...
This article is the first in a series on how to stay secure online. It's a topic I am often asked about and which I am surprised regularly by how little thought it is given... More...
In a very bold statement, Microsoft has claimed that 1 in 14 downloads made are somewhat malicious, and that five percent of users ignore browser warnings and proceed to download malware anyway. These facts have... More...
Lately it seems that we can't go a day without learning that some device is tracking our location or that some organization is selling our private data to others. Privacy rights are decreasing, but we... More...
An article over at eSecurityplanet details the latest release of Metasploit, including details on how it now has exploit modules for iOS devices. Metasploit is an open-source framework designed to help with things like penetration testing... More...
After an unfortunately long streak of security issues in the tech industry, online password manager LastPass has noticed a network anomaly that could possibly be an unwanted hacker intrusion. As LastPass is no novice to... More...
It seems that companies are losing our data left and right, making it difficult for consumers to protect their identity. Most web site logins consist of nothing more than a username/password combination, and many... More...
Microsoft's free antivirus solution for all Windows users may be good in terms of usability - in particular, its impact on system performance - but when it comes to actual malware protection, it came almost... More...
Dropbox sure has been in the news a lot lately. Two weeks ago Neowin reported that a major security flaw in the service can expose customer files to anyone on the Internet. Now it appears... More...
A Buffalo, NY man had a rude awakening one morning when federal officers broke down the door to his house, threw him down the stairs and aimed assault weapons at him while yelling, “Pedophile!” ... More...
Information security is always going to be a hot topic. When it comes to personal details, corporations are entrusted to secure that data. But if you are a Comcast subscriber, you may have another reason... More...