WASHINGTON D.C. - Children's advocacy groups last week reportedly file complaints with the FTC against large corporations over brand-related online games that ask kids for friends' e-mail addresses without parental consent. The debate over personal data on the Internet and how it is used is always heated, but it becomes even more so when it
MOSCOW - A safer way to conduct online transactions and a new exploit blocker are the keystones to Kaspersky Lab's 2013 security suites, the company announced. The major new feature that's in both Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 (download) is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention, CNET News.Com reported. It's
MOSCOW - A Russian court Web site has been defaced following a verdict that saw the members of the all-female punk-rock band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in jail. The Khamovnichesky District Court was hacked today by a group claiming to be affiliated with the U.S. branch of Anonymous. The site uploaded a message
SAN FRANCISCO - Security researchers have discovered a single piece of malware that is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows, Mac OSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices. First uncovered last month by security company Integro, Crisis was originally described as a Mac Trojan capable of intercepting e-mails and instant
SAN FRANCISCO - As the Syrian civil war continues to escalate, pro-government forces are allegedly carrying out a cyberwar against local dissidents. Syrian activists, journalists, and government opposition groups are under a barrage of targeted malware attacks, according to the watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation. What this malware does is deceptively install surveillance software into
SAN FRANCISCO - The group, which calls itself Anti Leaks, claims it took down RT.com while expressing support for the anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot, whose members were arrested in March. An anti-WikiLeaks hacking group has taken credit for launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Russian news site RT.com, CNET News.Com
SAN FRANCISCO - We've all heard about phishing attacks - those spammy e-mails you get in your in-box imploring you to divulge your personal information. Now those annoying scams are coming to a cell phone near you - it's called smishing, or phishing via SMS text message. Text messaging is the most common nonvoice use
LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by the Ecuadorian government after taking refuge in its London embassy on June 19. The asylum decision follows a U.K. Supreme Court ruling in May authorizing Assange's extradition to Sweden to face questioning over alleged sexual crimes, CNET News.Com reported. Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo
SAN FRANCISCO - The company behind games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo tells customers it believes no financial information was accessed but suggests users change their passwords immediately. Game maker Blizzard Entertainment's internal network security has been breached, the company informed customers today, CNET News.Com reported. While the company behind World of Warcraft
MOSCOW - Gauss, a new "cyber-espionage toolkit," has emerged in the Middle East and is capable of stealing sensitive data such as browser passwords, online banking accounts, cookies, and system configurations, according to Kaspersky Lab. Gauss appears to have come from the same nation-state factories that produced Stuxnet. According to Kaspersky, Gauss has unique characteristics