REDMOND, WA. - One of Monday's sessions at Microsoft's TechEd conference highlighted the support that Windows 8.1 will offer for fingerprint recognition, as described by The Verge, CNET News.Com reported. Prior versions of Windows handled fingerprint readers through third-party software. But Windows 8.1 will be the first edition of Windows to natively support the technology.
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeremy Hammond was arrested in a major federal sweep last year on charges of computer hacking conspiracy, computer hacking, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. The self-described hacktivist pled guilty to these counts in court on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. "As part of each of these hacks, I took
BEIJING - China, often linked to alleged cyberattacks, is apparently training military forces on digital combat and informationalized war. According to state-sponsored news agency Xinhua, the People's Liberation Army plans to launch digital war games next month focused on developing new combat forces that specialize in cyberwarfare, CNET News.Com reported. The news agency says this
SAN FRANCISCO - The designs for some of the most sensitive advanced U.S. weapons systems were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers, according to a confidential report prepared by the Defense Science Board for the Pentagon. The report, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post, listed more than two dozen compromised weapons systems,
SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after the Pentagon announced the Chinese government has been involved in widespread cyberespionage targeting the U.S. government and businesses, a bipartisan group of senators proposed a new law to fight cyber-theft. The law, dubbed "Deter Cyber Theft Act," was proposed Tuesday by Democrats Carl Levin and Jay Rockefeller and Republicans John
SAN FRANCISCO - A global cybercime ring stole $45 million from banks around the world in a matter of hours by hacking a database of prepaid debit cards, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Seven people are in U.S. custody in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft has issued a warning that a new piece of malware masquerading as a Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on is making the rounds, threatening to hijack Facebook accounts. First detected in Brazil, Trojan:JS/Febipos.A attempts to keep itself updated, just like normal, legitimate browser extensions, Microsoft noted in a security bulletin reported
SAN FRANCISCO - MacWorld is reporting that a program on the iOS App Store may be detected as containing malware, but in analysis the program is not considered to be malicious. After its readers wrote in about the potential of malware in a game called Simply Find It that is available on the iTunes App
SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning that some companies should not be trusted with your data, but some should, and actively fight on the user's behalf. Out of the 18 major Web and technology companies listed in the latest report from the U.S. privacy and civil liberties group, only six firms had
SAN FRANCISCO - Daily deals Web site LivingSocial is the latest database target for hackers, who have compromised the personal information of more than 50 million people. In internal LivingSocial e-mails obtained by AllThingsD, the unknown culprits appear to have made off with the names, e-mails, birthdates, and encrypted passwords of what appears to be