Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.? At around 18:45 GMT Tuesday, "OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has ...
It pays to be careful about which apps you download to your smart phone. More than 5 million smart phone users experienced symptoms of malicious software on their phones in the past year, our latest survey projects. Even a nonmalicious app ...
Tags: App, Consumer Electronics
Wi-Fi can be so tempting, making it easy for you to do just about anything online when you're away from home. But you should be thinking before clicking, because most public Wi-Fi could make your private information a bit too, well, public. ...
"How do we make the most of this amazing device and do it in safe, sustainable manner going forward?" asked Sree Sreenivasan (Chief Digital Officer at Columbia University and faculty member of Columbia's School of Journalism), who moderated ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Security
Many smart phone users don't adequately secure their phones, according to our latest survey. If that group includes you, here are three simple steps you can take to protect your privacy as well as the information on your phone if it's lost ...
Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...
There are just about as many types of smart-phone users as there are phones. Understanding the kind of user you are will help you figure out how to strike the right balance between protecting yourself and getting the most out of your phone. ...
Tags: Smart-Phone, Phone, Consumer Electronics
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defences, according to a new report from Symantec. Companies with 250 employees or less absorbed 18 percent of targeted cyber attacks in 2011, but ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The US government is to introduce a "cyber espionage review" process into future purchases of IT after the measures were passed in a new funding law signed this week by President Obama. It follows reports in the press since the beginning ...
Tags: Cyber Espionage Review, IT, policy
If you think smartphones have made a big impact on our lives today, wait till you see what the computers of tomorrow are capable of. Peter Van Der Made, current Chief Scientist at vWISP based in Western Australia has spent over a decade ...
Tags: Computers, IBM, Internet Security
A jury in Texas has found that Cisco Systems did not infringe four patents held by VirnetX Holding, according to court records. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler division, however, found in its ...
Tags: Cisco, VirnetX patents, mobile markets
China has offered to open discussions with the US on the issue of cyber security, following tit-for-tat accusations by both sides of hacking and stealing data from government and corporate websites. The Chinese offer follows comments by ...
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China's foreign minster on Saturday called on nations to cooperate on Internet security, rather than wage cyberwarfare, as he denied accusations in a recent report that the country's military was behind hacking attacks. "Cyberspace needs ...
Tags: Internet security, cyberwarfare, China
Kaspersky Lab's Internet Security 2013 product contains a bug that can be exploited remotely, especially on local networks, to completely freeze the OS on computers running the software. The bug can be attacked by sending a specifically ...
Recently, consumers nationwide have received a phone call from federal employees, informing them that they're among the first Americans selected to receive health-insurance cards as part of the Affordable Care Act. Before they mail out ...
Tags: Care Act, Identity-Theft Scam, Medicine