Security

Fri, February 03, 2012 - If you have an account with a company whose servers have been hacked, it's nerve-wracking to wonder whether or not your private data has been leaked onto the Internet. Thankfully, a new Web service seeks to aggregate all the leaked account data on the Internet and make it easy for you to check and see if you're on the list.

Fri, February 03, 2012 - A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.

Fri, February 03, 2012 - Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have long called the company to make.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major U.S. government agencies own computers infected with the "DNS Changer" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organizations at risk of information theft, a security company said today.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - The FBI today said it arrested a man on charges of illegally reproducing and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs who had fled the country after being indicted last year.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - Data routinely gathered in Web logs - IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings - can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, Microsoft researchers say.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.

Thu, February 02, 2012 - Researchers have discovered a malware engine that appears to be able to break the CAPTCHA security used by Yahoo's webmail service after only a handful of attempts.

Wed, February 01, 2012 - A group of HTC Android phones is susceptible to an exploit that can steal Wi-Fi credentials and passwords and send them to attackers.