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One of the more embarrassing revelations from last week's RSA Security conference in San Francisco was that bigger businesses take longer to discover security breaches. The DNSchanger Trojan, ...

There's been a lot of research in the Android security space. The most notable examples are Jon Oberheide's fake Twilight app, Georgia Weidman's SMS bot, and the numerous clever root exploits. Recently in the mainstream media, there's been buzz about apps (allegedly) misusing permissions; some of these apps include Facebook...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's long journey from Germany to a New Zealand prison cell involves fraud, fast cars, and file-sharing—along with a $12,800-a-day hotel suite in Hong Kong.

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Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky told Computer Business Review that malware targeting the Mac is beginning to grow and Apple needs to take

On November 16, 2011, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Ron Wyden asked that he be permitted to include a statement opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act. The full statement is published as a press release at Senator Wyden's web site. It is a thoughtful and carefully constructed expression of concern regarding...

WiFi hotspots could soon become a virtual "extension" of cellular networks, but how much the easy access to WiFi will cost consumers remains unclear.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland sent a letter to his fellow leaders in the EU Friday urging them to reject ACTA, reversing Poland's course with

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Call it Steve Jobs' revenge. Security vendor Sophos has discovered that one in five Mac computers surveyed carry malware that could infect Windows PCs. In a bit of delicious irony, only one in 36 Apple computers were found to be infected with Mac OS X malware. The results bring an odd sense of urgency to worries about...

Siemens said on Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate a cyber intrusion into a water treatment plant in South Houston, Texas, but couldn't confirm that a default, three digit password hard coded into the Simatic HMI software played a role.

Two weeks ago, a security researcher set off an intentional firestorm over the discovery of data that seemed to indicate a flaw in the way cryptographic systems ...

OpenDNS announced a technology preview today for Macs running their DNS services called DNSCrypt. Think of this as doing for the DNS protocol what HTTPS does for the ...

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Apple on Monday released a critical update to its version of Java for Mac OS X that plugs at least a dozen security holes in the program. More importantly, the patch mends a flaw that attackers have recently pounced on to broadly deploy malicious software, both on Windows and Mac systems.

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The Trustworthy Internet Movement's SSL Pulse project has done a survey of the secure sites of the Internet and found that 75% are still vulnerable to the BEAST TLS attack.

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DNSSEC stops simple hijack of web traffic, but is incompatible with SOPA-required redirects