SAN FRANCISCO - Apple's nearly year-and-a-half old iMessage service has been found to be vulnerable to an attack that uses a flood of messages, or messages so long that the application is rendered unstable. According to a report from The Next Web, a small group of developers have found themselves the target of an attack
JACKSON ? Consumers Energy electric customers with solar generating systems can sell their surplus output back to the electric utility for a fix price contract over 15 years. But they need to submit their applications by May 8. Starting April 1, Consumers Energy electric customers can submit applications for what?s called the non-residential capacity in
BEIJING - The People's Liberation Army unit allegedly responsible for cyberspying on Western targets has collaborated with a top Chinese university on networking and security research papers. In a finding uncovered by Reuters, Shanghai Jiaotong's School of Information Security Engineering (SISE) and the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 have worked in partnership on at least
SAN FRANCISCO - A new Websense report suggests that approximately 94 percent of endpoints that run Oracle's Java are vulnerable to at least one exploit, and we are ignoring updates at our own peril. According to security researchers at Websense, it's not just zero-day attacks that remain a persistent threat. Instead, Java exploits are now
SAN FRANCISCO - Spider.io, a security researcher, said it has discovered a new botnet, called Chameleon, that's targeting "at least" 202 Web sites and has siphoned off $6 million per month in cash from advertisers. The botnet is made up of over 120,000 host machines running Windows, according to Spider.io. Those machines are connecting to
LOS ANGELES - When Matthew Keys allegedly handed over the passwords of his former employer to members of the hacker group Anonymous a couple of years ago, he probably didn't think it would lead to an indictment. However, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Keys was being indicted on three counts: conspiracy to transmit
WASHINGTON D.C. - Chinese leaders must address cybersecurity threats emanating from their country on an unprecedented scale or risk weakening the economic relationship between Beijing and the United States, White House national security adviser Tom Donilon said Monday. ?U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information
SAN FRANCISCO - The Web sites for banking giant JP Morgan Chase last week went offline for a few hours as the result of a distributed-denial-of-service attack, a representative told CNET. Hackers have ratcheted up their assaults on financial institutions in recent months, using DDoS attacks to take down Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase,
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google has launched a new web site, called Help for Hacked Sites, that has a dozen articles and videos aimed to help people avoid having their sites hacked and also teach them how to gain back control of compromised sites. "Every day, cybercriminals compromise thousands of websites. Hacks are often invisible to
SAN FRANCISCO - iOS profiles, aka mobileconfig files, are used by mobile carriers to configure key settings for e-mail, Wi-Fi, and other features. But these files could be abused by attackers to sneak past Apple's normally tight security and and hijack a mobile device, researchers at Skycure Security contend. The process would be similar to