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It's been a while since we've had a security breach worth mentioning (that we know of). Last week we had one, and it was an eye-opener.
Yesterday, researchers outlined a complicated way to crack the Google Wallet PIN used to make purchases with the smartphone-based payment system. Now there's a new hack that could let a stranger gain access to the funds of Wallet users.
App is vulernable to quick brute-force attacks on rooted phones. Near field communications (NFC) technology has been around overseas for over half a decade now, but it's finally jumping from the Asian market to the United States.
Foxconn, the gargantuan Chinese manufacturing backend for much of the tech industry, has developed a reputation as one of the world
A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.
Every day, we hear another story about a company whose sensitive data has been breached. Press releases, tweets, customer support email, and followup articles all provide insight into the kind of information that
It's been known for some time that there are security issues associated with the increasing use of RFID tags in credit cards, but this past weekend afforded a fresh demonstration of just how easy it is for hackers to take advantage of them.
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words
Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.
Hacktivists have added a new tactic to their arsenal: redirecting all of the traffic from a target company's website.
An O2 user, Lewis Peckover, found that the mobile phone company has been adding the phone number of any subscriber using its mobile network to the HTTP headers of web requests. The header, x-up-calling-line-id, appears to be inserted by the transparent proxies that O2 uses so it can downgrade images and insert JavaScript into the returned HTML.
Hackers under the AntiSec banner appeared to have hacked late Monday the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. federal government's online security website, in protest against controversial legislation.
A group of hackers temporarily wiped clean CBS.com, in what seemed to be further retaliation for the government shutdown last week of file-sharing site Megaupload.com.
DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting services provider and domain name registrar, has confirmed that it may have been the victim of an attack on its servers. In a post on its DreamHost Status blog, the company says that it "detected some unauthorized activity" in one of its databases and is now requiring customers to change their FTP/shell passwords as a precautionary measure.
Symantec today backed away from earlier statements regarding the theft of source code of some of its flagship security products, now admitting that its own network was compromised.
Security researchers have spotted spam emails that point at URLs featuring embedded Quick Response codes (QR codes).
Hackers have posted the source code for two Symantec security products, claiming they obtained the information from systems belonging to Indian military intelligence. The products affected are four and five years old, Symantec said. "If the source code from product released in the past three or four years was compromised, I'd be pretty concerned," said security consultant Randy Abrams.
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced.
A defacer affiliated with Anonymous vandalised Sony's online front door this week over the corporate behemoth's support of SOPA, a hated anti-piracy law proposed in the US.
A computer hacking group has revealed email addresses and other personal data from former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, and hundreds of U.S. intelligence, law enforcement and military officials in a high-profile case of cyber-theft.