BEIJING, China ? China's Internet was taken down in an attack on Sunday that could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or an individual, security experts say. According to The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported on the outage, China on Sunday was hit with what the government has called the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palestinian IT expert who claimed to have discovered a Facebook vulnerability said he took his bug report to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after being ignored by the social network's security team. The vulnerability allows anyone to post anything to anyone else's page, regardless of whether they are a Facebook friend of
SAN FRANCISCO - Distributed denial of service attacks have been used to divert security personnel attention while millions of dollars were stolen from banks, according to a security researcher. At least three US banks in recent months have been plundered by fraudulent wire transfers while hackers deployed "low powered" DDoS attacks to mask their theft,
HOUSTON - A Houston couple on Tuesday revealed to ABC News that earlier this month, the baby monitor they use for their daughter was hacked and the hacker shouted obscenities at the sleeping 2-year-old girl as well as her parents who had not changed the default log in or password. The baby monitor connected to
WASHINGTON DC - The Energy Department on Wednesday notified workers that a hack in late July exposed personal information, such as the names and Social Security numbers of current and past employees, and that 14,000 people may have been affected. According to the e-mail, obtained by the Wall Street Journal and reported by CNET News.Com,
BEIJING - A Chinese hacking group accused this February of being tied to the Chinese army was caught last December infiltrating a decoy water control system for a U.S. municipality, a researcher revealed. The group, known as APT1, was caught by a research project that provides the most significant proof yet that the Chinese are
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just your phone calls and Internet activity you need to be concerned about these days from the NSA. Hackers could be gunning for your toilet, too. Security company Trustwave issued a warning this week about potential bathroom breaches of luxury Satis smart toilets from Lixil. The toilets can be controlled
LAS VEGAS - You may hate parallel parking, but you're going to hate it even more when somebody commandeers control of your car with you in it - a scary scenario painted at the 21st annual Defcon hacker conference. "Car hacking is definitely coming," said Zoz, of Cannytophic Design, who presented on how to hack
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency is collecting e-mails and other text communications that are sent internationally or are received from foreign sources, a new report claims. The NSA's e-mail data-collection efforts include both those who communicate with potential overseas targets, as well as anyone who might cite a particular individual or something even
WASHINGTON DC - The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet, according to a new report. NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is still holed up in a Moscow airport, has reportedly leaked to The Guardian new details on a high-powered, secret