Right around the time that the Stuxnet attack so famously sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly was trying something similar against North Korea.
Katherine Noyes |
30 May |
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Data breaches like the one just disclosed by the IRS aren't something any organization wishes for, but there's now even bigger financial incentive to avoid them than in the past.
Katherine Noyes |
28 May |
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Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service's "Get Transcript" application, a major data breach at the U.S.'s national tax agency.
Katherine Noyes |
27 May |
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Ever since its acquisition of Q1 Labs back in 2011, IBM has been selling its QRadar security event management software in the traditional way, whereby customers pay a price and download the version they want.
Katherine Noyes |
22 Apr |
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Automated teller machines have been around for decades, but surprisingly few changes have been made to the technologies that run them. That's about to change.
Katherine Noyes |
16 Apr |
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Security-conscious IT leaders already have a rocky romance with the BYOD trend, and as Valentine's day approaches it's emerged that lonely-heart employees could be putting company data up for grabs by using dating apps.
Katherine Noyes |
12 Feb |
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A critical Linux bug that many are comparing to the "goto fail" problem that afflicted Apple last month was recently discovered, prompting Linux distribution and application developers to scramble to incorporate a new patch into their code.
Katherine Noyes |
06 Mar |
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"Do Not Track" capabilities have been controversial ever since they first appeared in Firefox 4 back in 2011, but earlier this year the battle became even more intense when Mozilla announced that it planned to begin blocking third-party cookies by default.
Katherine Noyes |
09 Apr |
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The Pwn2Own 2013 and Pwnium 3 hacking competitions may have both taken place in the same locale last week--specifically, the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, B.C.--but the differences in their outcomes could not have been more striking.
Katherine Noyes |
12 Mar |
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It was just a few weeks ago that Firefox got a fresh security boost on the eve of its eighth birthday, but this week Mozilla gave users of its popular browser a better way to protect their privacy as well.
Katherine Noyes |
14 Dec |
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Phishing attacks are an all-too-common threat on the Internet today, but among the top browsers Google's Chrome does the best job of preventing them.
Katherine Noyes |
30 Nov |
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Between Android and Firefox, this has been a big week for milestones in the world of free and open source software.
Katherine Noyes |
12 Nov |
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The past two years or so have brought a new breed of scary malware to the forefront of public attention, including the infamous Stuxnet worm that was discovered back in 2010.
Katherine Noyes |
18 Oct |
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There's already been a fair bit of controversy over Microsoft's decision to make the “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting turned on by default in Internet Explorer 10, and recently the brouhaha got even louder.
Katherine Noyes |
11 Sep |
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There never seems to be any shortage of Android malware reports circulating in the news, and today one came out that sounds alarming indeed.
Katherine Noyes |
16 Aug |
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