Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
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A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in New Delhi,India,on Nov.24. According to a brief description of the presentation on the ...
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US multinational energy firm Chevron has revealed that it was hit by the Stuxnet virus,widely believed to have been launched by the US and Israel to spy on and disrupt Iran's nuclear facilities. Stuxnet was designed to target only the ...
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Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities,according to Russian researchers whose presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this year was cancelled following a ...
Tags: Siemens software, Stuxnet, Sergey Gordeychik, SCADA system
Computerworld-The move to allow voters in New Jersey to cast their votes via email or fax may be running into early problems,according to reports. BuzzFeed this morning reported that voters in New Jersey's Morris and Essex Counties were ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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The Department of Homeland Security(DHS),struggling to find enough cybersecurity talent to meet its needs,says it is going to groom the next generation of cybersecurity pros starting in kindergarten. But several security experts say while ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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CSO-In Windows 8,Microsoft has greatly improved the operating system's ability to detect malware before it has a chance to run,experts say.Windows 8 should also make it more difficult for people to unknowingly install malware in the first ...
CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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Computerworld-In the biggest data compromise of the year,Social Security Numbers(SSN)belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. ...
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Hack in the Box will host its 10th security conference this week in Kuala Lumpur featuring an all-star cast of hacking luminaries and a cutting-edge program. The lengthy speakers list includes John Draper aka"Captain Crunch,"who famously ...
An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
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A White House executive order on cyber security is "close to completion," according to Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security. The news comes just weeks after former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt said US ...
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Apple yesterday quietly released a security update for OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, effectively extending support for the three-year-old OS beyond the normal lifecycle. The Snow Leopard update shipped alongside larger updates for Lion and ...
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