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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
One day after a hacker using the handle “Reckz0r” claims to have infiltrated 79 different banks and leaked information allegedly belonging to Visa and MasterCard customers, there are questions about whether a hack actually occurred.
A flaw exists in the way that a specific instruction is handled on some types of Intel 64-bit chips that could open up some operating systems and types of virtualization software to attacks, according to an alert issued last week but revised today by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
In a move that will patch several loopholes with its iPhone, the newest iteration of Apple’s mobile operation system, iOS 6, will come with heightened security, it was revealed at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week.
Independent business owners may find themselves deep in debt after hackers wipe out their bank accounts, with banks reluctant to recoup losses caused by online attacks, according to a report in the New York Times.
As smartphone technology evolves so does the way we access and interact with the Internet. Today your smartphone is used both as a phone and a computer. For many users, in 3-5 years your smartphone will also become your wallet. With new applications being developed daily, the mobile payments market is expected to reach unprecedented growth by 2014. As this market rapidly expands, is security taking a back seat to technology?
Payment processor Global Payments acknowledged Tuesday that a breach at the company announced in early March may have affected individual consumers, as well as merchants.
A new Anonymous-styled hacktivist group, SpexSecurity, has surfaced and then vanished, but not before allegedly siphoning the personal information of over 100,000 residents of a Tennessee town, including individuals’ e-mail passwords, social security numbers and birth dates.
Officials in Europe this week are hoping to set clearer rules for online advertisers with new guidelines that are supported by the continent’s leading digital privacy agencies.
The attackers behind Flame can easily clean up compromised computers, according to research by security firm Symantec who found that some attackers have been able to use command-and-control (C&C) servers to completely remove the malware from certain machines.
The online dating site eHarmony announced Wednesday that passwords for some of its members have been leaked, making it the second major social network site to announce the theft of user passwords in the last 24 hours.
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