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
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,
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
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
LONDON - Computers manufactured by the world's biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo, have been banned from the ?secret? and top secret - networks of the intelligence and defense services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, because of concerns they are vulnerable to being hacked. Multiple intelligence and defense sources in Britain and
SAN FRANCISCO - The Syrian Electronic Army sent out a warning over Twitter earlier Tuesday that said, "If you have 'Viber' app installed we advise you to delete it." The hacking group was claiming responsibility for both breaching Viber's database and defacing its Web site, according to The Hacker News and reported by CNET News.Com.