Cyber Security

Cyber criminals will bank their Windows XP zero-day vulnerabilities until after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April, a security expert argued. Jason Fossen, a trainer for SANS since 1998 and an expert on Microsoft security, said it’s simply economics at work. “The average price on the black market for a Windows XP Continue Reading →

What if I told you that your browser’s saved passwords weren’t nearly as secure as you thought? If you use Google Chrome (and you should, because it’s pretty regularly rated as the best browser you can use), anyone can uncover any of your saved passwords with a single click. Now, if you’re like me and Continue Reading →

At a news conference on Friday, President Obama said he was making plans to improve government oversight of surveillance programs in an effort to ensure the protection of civil rights and restore the public’s trust in the government. “Given the history of abuse by governments, it’s right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology Continue Reading →

A dozen of London’s more than 100 recycling bins fitted with digital screens were tracking each phone that connects to them with WiFi. The technology allows advertisers to deduce whether the same phone – although not necessarily the same person – is passing by. The City of London Corporation today demanded that the technology was Continue Reading →

More than ever before, we’ve become increasingly aware of our technology’s ability to monitor our movements. For the most part, smartphone users now have at least a vague understanding that service providers as well as apps and mapping services are collecting, asking for, and using location data all the time. Whether we read them or Continue Reading →

We spent a long time begging Twitter for two-step verification, and we were pumped to finally get it. Now, an update to the service’s Android and iOS apps are taking it a step further, and making it even better. The improvements include in-app authentication that doesn’t require to wait for an SMS. It’s sort of Continue Reading →

Facebook wants you to know it’s taking security seriously — enough for Zuckerberg and Co. to pay out over $1 million in reward within two years for its Bug Bounty program. According to a recent blog post, it’s awarded a total of 329 digital bounty hunters at least $500 for discovering and reporting security issues Continue Reading →

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal wiretap into the cyber age. Federal agencies have largely kept quiet about these capabilities, but court documents and interviews with people involved in the programs provide new details about the hacking Continue Reading →

Major wireless carriers have fixed a bug that could have allowed criminals to hack into hundreds of millions of cell phones, says a security expert who exposed the flaw. Cryptographer Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Germany says he discovered the bug after spending three years figuring out how to hack SIM cards, those Continue Reading →

Now that PRISM has been unveiled, there are (and will be) significant discussions about personal privacy and government monitoring of personal communications. There are several levels or developing issues and trends that this revelation triggers for all of us to think about. Privacy The fast answer is that there is no longer any privacy. Privacy Continue Reading →