BIRMINGHAM - Let this be the day that you change your password practices. On December 24th, 2011, Anonymous, the group of hackers that includes anyone who chooses to adapt that label, announced that they had broken into the servers of the defense intelligence organization Stratfor. Despite Anonymous? belief in a vast military-industrial-government conspiracy, Stratfor is
SAN FRANCISCO - Sprint, which for weeks has defended its use of Carrier IQ software on mobile phones, is now disabling the software, a Sprint spokeswoman told CNET News.Com. "We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected," spokeswoman Stephanie
SAN FRANCISCO - The number of malicious apps mobile security firm Lookout has identified in less than six months has doubled to 1,000, according to a report from Lookout. The vast majority of those dubious apps are found on third-party app stores and alternatives to the official Android Market, the company said in a report
NEW YORK - The largest-ever global survey of the data science community, spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China, finds that only one-third of companies are able to effectively use new data to assist their business decision-making, gain competitive advantage, drive productivity growth, yield innovation and reveal customer insights. The
SAN FRANCISCO - In the fight against malware, Apple's iOS outshines Android as a safer environment, but no mobile device is free from risk, says a new report from McAfee. Apple has so far done a good job of securing its devices, according to the report, noting that there have been no known cases of
SAN FRANCISCO - Symantec's new 2011 Enterprise Encryption Trends survey concludes that the inability to access important business information due to fragmented encryption solutions and poor key management is costing the average business $124,965 per year. Survey has found businesses are securing data with encryption in more places than ever. The problem is that encryption
SAN FRANCISCO - Your Android-based smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart argues in a video posted earlier this week. In the nearly 20-minute video clip, Eckhart shows how software developed by mobile-device tracker Carrier IQ logs each keystroke and then sends them off to locations unknown. In
WASHINGTON DC - The Department of Homeland Security and FBI dismissed the conclusions of a report that a cyber intrusion caused a pump at an Illinois water utility to burn out. But the statement doesn't explain why an Illinois state terrorism intelligence center would say it was a hacker when it wasn't. In the meantime,
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is strengthening the encryption on Gmail and other services so that messages stored today can't easily be decrypted later by faster computers using brute force methods. The company is enabling what is called "forward secrecy" by default, Adam Langley from Google's security team, wrote in a blog post reported by CNET
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI and Philippine law enforcement officials arrested four people in the Philippines this week who were allegedly paid by terrorists to hack into AT&T's system, but the company said its system was not breached. The four, who were arrested Wednesday in Manila, were paid by the same Saudi Arabian-based terrorist group