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Late last month, President Barrack Obama finally named his cyber coordinator, some 10 months after he declared filling the position a priority. The person who was tapped for the position comes to the job with a resume boasting jobs that include chief information security officer at eBay and chief security officer at Microsoft. But the [...]
For the past two decades, the weight of children has been on the upswing, and the effects into adulthood are coming home to roost. According to a new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, more than 250,000 Canadians in their 20s and 30s have high blood pressure, a figure that has doubled [...]
Facebookoholics now have more tools to deepen their dependency on the world’s most popular social networking site. Facebook has released an Internet Explorer version of its browser toolbar, about two months after shipping one for Firefox, the company said. Read more…
Microsoft Corp. posted a 60% gain in fiscal second-quarter profit, benefiting from improved personal computer sales and the recent release of its flagship Windows 7 operating system. After U.S. markets closed Thursday, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said net income for the period ended in December rose to $6.66 billion, or 74 cents a share, from $4.17 [...]
Security specialists have turned their attention to vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash-driven websites. At next week’s Black Hat conference in Washington. Foreground Security’s senior security researcher Michael Bailey intends to perform live attacks against some of the top websites to show they can be compromised by exploiting what he says are design flaws in Adobe Flash. [...]
The Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode credit card checks are fundamentally flawed, according to security researchers. The 3-D secure protocol, which underlies both, “might be a textbook example of how not to design an authentication protocol,” say Steven Murdoch and Ross Anderson of the University of Cambridge Computer Lab in a research paper. Read [...]
The recent hacking attack that prompted Google’s threat to leave China is underscoring the heightened dangers of previously undisclosed computer security flaws — and renewing debate over buying and selling information about them in the black market. Because no fix was available, the linchpin in the attack was one of the worst kinds of security [...]
Security firms have come across attempts to subvert search engines to catch out those seeking more information about the tablet. Those who follow rogue links are re-directed to pages that scan their computer looking for loopholes and vulnerabilities. Some scammers are using these to peddle security software and others are trying to steal valuable data. [...]
Thanko created a new device that supports 80 USB ports. But the worst thing is that you can’t transfer data through the 80 ports. They only charge whatever you stick in. The board is sized at 200×200×19mm and obviously needs to be plugged into a wall socket to work (100V). Read more…
US federal authorities arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly selling modified cable modems that enabled free Internet access, according to the US Department of Justice. Matthew Delorey of New Bedford, Connecticut, is charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of wire fraud. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison [...]
