Hacking courses offer cybercrooks tips on how to hone skills
A growing number of experienced hackers have begun offering structured hacking courses for crooks seeking to make a career in cybercrime.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Sep | Read more
A growing number of experienced hackers have begun offering structured hacking courses for crooks seeking to make a career in cybercrime.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Sep | Read more
Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden's role as a systems administrator provided easy access to classified NSA documents sitting in a file-sharing location on the spy agency's intranet portal.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Sep | Read more
A group of between 50 and 100 professional hackers operating out of China has been systematically targeting businesses, military and government agencies around the world since at least 2009, security vendor Symantec said in a report released on Tuesday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Sep | Read more
Security researchers from the U.S. and Europe released a paper showing how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment and other critical systems can be maliciously compromised during the manufacturing process through virtually undetectable changes at the transistor level.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Sep | Read more
A U.S appellate court's decision earlier this week to permit a wiretapping case against Google to proceed, is based on flawed reasoning, a leading technology think-tank says.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 13 Sep | Read more
The central system built to support Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges has successfully completed security testing and is set begin operating on October 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Wednesday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 Sep | Read more
Though the National Security Agency spends billions of dollars to crack encryption technologies, security experts maintain that properly implemented, encryption is still the best way to maintain online privacy.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Sep | Read more
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith Friday said that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security Agency and others for Internet user data.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Aug | Read more
For all the privacy concerns raised by Edward Snowden's leaks about government data collection activities, the U.S. is not alone or even always the most demanding when it comes to law enforcement requests for customer data from Internet service providers.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Aug | Read more
One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 29 Aug | Read more
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 28 Aug | Read more
Organizations handling protected health information have until Sept. 23 to comply with new security and privacy requirements that were included as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 Aug | Read more
Nasdaq's unprecedented trading halt today stemmed from a technical glitch with a core data feed that disseminates market data for Nasdaq-listed securities.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 Aug | Read more
Newly declassified documents released by the Obama Administration show that the National Security Agency collected phone and Internet data on tens of thousands of Americans.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 Aug | Read more
Malware writers are ramping up their use of commercial file hosting sites and cloud services to distribute malware programs, security researchers said at this week's Black Hat conference here.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 Aug | Read more