Some videoconferencing equipment could enable hackers to eavesdrop on privileged corporate conversations or a boring employee training seminar, according to a security official at Rapid7.
03 February 2012
Microsoft is a myth maker when it comes to Google’s new privacy policy, the search giant is charging.
03 February 2012
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue told a House panel this week that he had a relative and a friend declared “dead” on his agency’s death list, which publishes the names and social security numbers of deceased individuals, even though they were very much alive.
03 February 2012
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding $10 million in funding for trusted online credential pilot projects.
03 February 2012
The total number of patient records compromised in the US increased by 97% in 2011 compared with 2010, according to a report released this week by the Redspin consulting firm.
03 February 2012
Academics Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund from Ruhr University Bochum have reverse-engineered and cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 voice ciphers used by many satellite networks.
03 February 2012
Following its signature to the ACTA agreement in Tokyo last week, the EU has published ’10 Myths about ACTA’. It’s purpose is to counter the many criticisms about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, and is part of a current EU campaign to demonstrate that ACTA is misunderstood.
03 February 2012
Reuters reports that VeriSign was repeatedly hacked during 2010. The information was discovered among 2000 different quarterly SEC filings being reviewed by Reuters.
03 February 2012
Apple has released massive security updates for its Lion and Snow Leopard Mac operating systems, fixing 52 vulnerabilities.
02 February 2012
The top G-man is warning Congress that hackers will pose a greater danger to US national security than terrorists in the not-too-distant future.
02 February 2012