Dell has jumped feet first into the Windows 8 era of computing with a redesigned portfolio of business and consumer PCs. Built to best optimise Windows 8, Dell has delivered designs that make touch computing available to more customers than ...
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
Tags: malware, browser extension, remote-controlled, Balazs
Microsoft has acquired mobile authentication solutions provider PhoneFactor, which it hopes will help it to offer secure mobile business applications for enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Further reading ...
Tags: Microsoft, PhoneFactor, Windows Phone 8, MFA
IDG News Service - Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile Numbers, functionality
Mozilla launched the first beta version of its browser-independent website authentication system, Persona, on Thursday and hopes to convince the Web developer community to give it a try. The Persona system was first launched as an ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
Open source blogging tool and content management system WordPress has boosted its security by incorporating the Mydigipass authentication service into its platform. This means owners of the 54 million web and blog sites that have been ...
Tags: WordPress, Mydigipass authentication, Website owners, password encryption
Computerworld Hong Kong - Apple's iCloud service, which was recently forced upon former-users of mac.com (including myself), has not proven to be a shiny seamless service. Many tech journos complain that iCloud doesn't represent the ...
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Cybercriminals have found a way to circumvent the multifactor authentication systems used to protect business VPNs,according to security firm Trusteer,which has reported a recent targeted attack on an airport network using this method. ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, VPN, Trusteer, security, OTP, authentication system, Citadel
Complaints over the past several weeks from Dropbox users whose email addresses have been targeted with spam have finally been answered by the company,which has admitted the possibility that an employee's company email was hacked,and a list ...
Tags: Dropbox, web service, LinkedIn, SafeNet
European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa has called on service providers and end-users to work together to protect online identities. Passwords protect sensitive information, yet in the first half of 2012 alone, data breaches have ...
Tags: online identities, sensitive information, personal data, passwords safe
Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised,leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. A stolen password was used to access the employee's account,which contained"a ...
Tags: Dropbox, spam attack, two-factor authentication, security problem
New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault. "We have detected a new wave of ...