Startup Aims to Scour the Dark Web for Stolen Data
When online thieves compromised Target in November 2013, they took less than a day to gain a foothold in the retail giant’s network. Because the signs of such an attack are hard to distinguish, Target...
View ArticleBlack Hat: Car Security Is Likely to Worsen, Researchers Say
As more cars come with wireless connectivity and in-car apps, more of them will be vulnerable to potentially dangerous hacking, two well-known researchers warned at the Black Hat security conference in...
View ArticleWhere’s the Next Heartbleed Bug Lurking?
After causing widespread panic and changing of passwords, the Heartbleed bug has largely disappeared from the news. Yet the implications of the discovery are still being debated across the computer...
View ArticleThe Year of Encryption
Last summer, the world’s largest Internet companies learned they’d been hacked by the U.S. government.Their answer for 2014: encrypt everything.Over the last eight months, Yahoo encrypted its e-mail...
View ArticleA Menacing Facebook-Google Mashup
Computer scientists have shown that the functionality many websites expose to developers—to let them build powerful Web applications—can also be combined in potentially nefarious ways.A team from the...
View ArticleThe Latest Threat: A Virus Made Just for You
The Flashback computer virus gained notoriety earlier this year as the first malware to make headway against Apple’s relatively untouched operating system, Mac OS X, infecting some 600,000 victims’...
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Smart Phones Could Hear Your Password
The sensors inside modern smart phones present a range of security threats. An attacker who compromises a phone can, for example, track the owner’s location by GPS, use the camera to see the phone’s...
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Fake Certificates Reveal Flaws in the Internet’s Security
A major breach at a Dutch purveyor of digital certificates has caused some security experts to question the infrastructure that underpins the security of the Internet. The breach allowed unknown...
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The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like flight enthusiasts having fun, but it could be a future threat to computer...
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Pakistan May Have to Abandon Cryptography Ban
This week, a Pakistani Internet service provider (ISP) leaked a government regulatory memo requiring all ISPs to block encrypted communications sent over virtual private networks (VPNs). The leak set...
View ArticleHeat from Fingertips Could Help ATM Hackers
An infrared camera could record which keys you pressed.
View ArticleAn Office on Every Surface
How Microsoft’s chief strategy officer views the future of our work spaces.
View ArticleHow to Secure the Virtual Office
The explosion of mobile devices requires cloud-based solutions—and means that companies have to pick and choose what data they protect.
View ArticleNo Easy Answers to Password Problems
Even “strong” passwords have big weaknesses, so companies serious about security ought to rely on additional methods of authentication.
View ArticleLooking Out for Mobile Data
Three hackers seeking to improve smart-phone security decided to forge their own path. Now their company boasts 10 million users.
View ArticleU.S. Military, Businesses Seek Better Defenses on the Inside
Research projects at the Pentagon highlight the need to prevent data theft that happens within an organization’s walls.
View ArticleBusting the Botnets
The unusual activity generated by zombie computer networks can lead security experts right to them.
View ArticleHow China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic
“Invisible” servers let governments quietly intercept and modify their citizens’ online communications.
View ArticleSecuring All Androids Proves Tricky
The variety of devices running Google’s mobile OS on different networks makes security more complex.
View ArticleAn App for Dissidents
A startup is offering free encrypted voice and text communications to protesters in Egypt.
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