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 - 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
GRAND RAPIDS ? In a rambling, often disjointed, but thoroughly entertaining presentation by Fox News Military Analyst Col. David Hunt at the Great Lakes Homeland Security Training Conference and Expo said other communities should simulate the "warzone" experience of Boston to prepare for terrorist attacks. Hunt said the terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon last
SAN FRANCISCO - Cyberwarfare incidences jumped sharply in 2012, Akamai said, with the number of distributed denial of service attacks more than tripling from the previous year. Akamai, one of the world's largest globally distributed networks, told CNET News.Com its customers reported being targeted by 768 DDoS attacks last year, more than three times as
MOUNTAIN VIEW - A group of tech companies looking to replace passwords for online identity authentication gained a powerful ally Tuesday in the form of Google. The consortium, called the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO), is working to develop standards-based alternatives for verifying a user's identity when trying to login to Web sites and online
MT. CLEMENS - Macomb County's courts and other departments are back to pen-and-paper operations after a fire at the old county building Wednesday wiped out the county's servers and phone system. The county did not have a its data backed up off site. ?This is what we warned them about,? County Executive Mark Hackel told
WASHINGTON DC - Security firm McAfee is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to try to shore up America's defenses against cyberthreats. McAfee announced that the company is now part of the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership and will join cybersecurity professionals from both the private and public sector to tackle the escalating