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Belgian police say 10 people have been arrested in raids across Europe against hackers who put illegal copies of movies and television series on the Internet. Five of the arrests were in Belgium, where the computer crime unit led an operation that fanned out over 12 other nations, including Britain, Germany and France. Police spokeswoman [...]
Microsoft is investigating the public report of a data-stealing vulnerability impacting Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). In a post to the Full Disclosure mailing list, Google security engineer Chris Evans described the issue as a “nasty vulnerability” that could be exploited to allow an arbitrary website to force a user to post a message on a [...]
Of course, your car is probably not a high-priority target for most malicious hackers. But security experts tell that car hacking is starting to move from the realm of the theoretical to reality, thanks to new wireless technologies and evermore dependence on computers to make cars safer, more energy efficient, and modern. “Now there are [...]
The next time you log onto your Apple iTunes account – beware. Hackers may be setting their sights on your computer. According to USA Today, cyber criminals are buying iTunes logons from other scammers who often try to trick you into giving up your personal information. The scam is nothing new and is called phishing [...]
Hack, hacker, hacking, hacked–they all sound like bad words, don’t they? Google it and you have a dictionary definition. All geeks have at one time or another been hacking all their lives. Though I would prefer to call hacking “thinking out of the box”. I’ve been watching the TV series Leverage–something similar to the show [...]
Hackers could “hijack” the wireless pressure sensors built into many cars’ tires, researchers have found. Criminals might then track a vehicle or force its electronic control system to malfunction, the University of South Carolina and Rutgers University researchers say. Read more…
Todd Davis is best known as the CEO of identity-theft protection company LifeLock who used his own Social Security number in his company’s advertising as a sign of his confidence in the service. In May, it was widely reported that Davis’s identity had been stolen at least 13 times. The controversy over LifeLock’s advertising ultimately [...]
You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the Internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse. But when you’ve got the basics covered, but you still don’t feel secure, what can [...]
According to an Ovum analyst, mobile banking is inherently vulnerable. This is because mobile devices may be lost, stolen or hacked and are used in situations that are inherently less secure than sitting in an office or at a home computer. A new report (The malware threat to mobile banking) by technology analyst Ovum, states [...]
It is definite, a phone is not just a phone anymore. A phone is part of the fastest growing segment in consumer electronics. Mobile devices are the latest and greatest must have gadget and IT departments, like it or not, have to contend with their reality. The first mobile devices were, of course, laptops. Outside [...]
