WASHINGTON DC - The cybersecurity bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate is too broad, say privacy experts who worry that it could authorize wiretapping and curtail civil liberties. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012, introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut), John D. Rockefeller IV (D-West Virginia), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Dianne Feinstein (D-California), is
SAN FRANCISCO - Security and antivirus firm Intego reported that the criminals behind the Flashback Trojan have been hard at work releasing new variants to their malware package. The seventh variant of Flashback has been identified, which shows it is using new and unique techniques for infecting Macs. Flashback is a Trojan horse attack that,
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Office of the Attorney General has gotten agreements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Research In Motion to improve privacy protections on mobile apps. The companies will require developers to include privacy policies in their apps so that users will be informed about the data that apps will access, use,
WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation to protect peoples' online privacy based on a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. At the same time, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committing to work with Do Not Track technology in most major Web browsers so people can stop companies
LANSING - Liquid Web a managed hosting company with locations in Michigan and Arizona has successfully completed a SSAE-16 (formerly SAS70) and SOC 3 examinations, relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity, and has been issued an Independent Service Auditor's Report for both. The report found that Liquid Web had addressed each of the controls
TORONTO, Can. - Cyber criminals believed to be based in China have enjoyed nearly unfettered access to Nortel's computer system and access to its most secret intellectual property since as far back as 2000, according to the results of an internal investigation obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Nortel, once Canada?s most valuable company with
WASHINGTON DC - Anonymous had a busy weekend. The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed to have taken down the CIA's Web site on Friday, in what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack (one of the group's specialties, such relatively unsophisticated attacks paralyze Web servers
OAKLAND, Ca. - In response to what it claims is a series of community-busting moves by the California city's leaders and police, such as Occupy Oakland-related arrests and crackdowns, budget cutting and school, park, and library closings unaccompanied by City Hall salary cuts, the hacktivist group released a document containing personal data on a number
SAN FRANCISCO - In a string of attacks, members of the digital activist group Anonymous apparently hacked into the Web site of defense lawyers for a U.S. Marine accused of leading a civilian massacre in Iraq, and have reportedly acquired e-mails exchanged by attorneys in the case. They also reportedly: published the names, addresses and
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the welcome features in OS X Lion was the replacement of Apple's first-generation FileVault file encryption technology, which only encrypted the home folder, with a new whole-disk encryption approach. Unlike the first FileVault, which required a number of workarounds and still had compatibility problems with various programs and utilities, the