South American and European law enforcement agencies arrested 25 individuals believed to be members of hacktivist group Anonymous on Tuesday.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/28/2012
Will facial recognition and photo manipulation replace the traditional password in Microsoft's next OS?
President Obama's administration has presented legislation to protect online privacy that includes a consumer bill of rights and a standardized Do-Not-Track feature for browsers.
- By William Jackson
- 02/24/2012
A new agreement will call for app developers to provide clear information on their individual privacy policies before their products are downloaded.
An anonymous analysis of the leaked pcAnywhere source code shows that the software had undergone little change over the past decade.
According to Microsoft, Google circumnavigates Internet Explorer's P3P Privacy Protection feature to track cookies of users.
According to respondents to Arbor Networks' Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, DDoS attacks are targeting IPv6 networks for the first time since the Internet protocol started implementation last year.
The nation's capitol has topped the list of cities with the highest risk of cybercrime, according to a new report by Symantec.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/17/2012
Adobe on Wednesday released a security update that fixed seven Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw found by Google researchers.
Microsoft's February Security Update included an antivirus and security software "fix" that told users that Google.com was infected with the Blackhole Exploit Kit.
Microsoft today released its Security Update for the month of February, featuring four bulletin items classified as "critical" and five "important."
Anonymous last week took credit for attacks on state servers in Alabama and Mexican government sites.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/13/2012
Hackers attacked Microsoft's store in India Sunday night, making off with usernames and passwords of customers who have previously placed orders on the site.
Symantec has spotted a specially crafted Trojan that can exploit an Office hole that had been previously patched.
An industry-produced survey suggested that Web site attacks motivated by political considerations may be on the rise.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/10/2012
While this month's Patch Tuesday will land on Valentine's Day, Microsoft will be delivering nine not-so-sweet bulletin items.
Internal data of Foxconn was hacked and leaked online in light of recent reports of the company's poor working conditions.
Microsoft recently described some improvements it made to System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection.
The group Anonymous took credit for the attack against the Boston Police Department public outreach blog site BPDnews.com.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2012
A U.S. program that aims to assure greater identity trust in online transactions has received some research and development funding.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2012