JINAN, CHINA - Google Inc. said Chinese hackers targeted the Gmail accounts of hundreds of prominent people in a fresh computer attack certain to intensify growing concern about the security of the Internet. The victims, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel, Chinese activists and journalists, were tricked into sharing their passwords with "bad actors"
DETROIT - Comcast is expanding its free Constant Guard anti-botnet service for Xfinity customers to add identity fraud detection to its anti-malware and secure backup service. The Internet service provider launched a trial of Constant Guard in 2009 and took it nationwide last September, alerting customers when their computers appear to have been compromised by
SAN FRANCISCO - Malware surged, spam fell and threats targeting the Symbian and Android environments grew significantly in Q1, according to the latest McAfee Labs Threats Report. With six million unique samples of recorded malware, Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history. The report revealed many of the trends that had
CUPERTINO, Ca. - A new version of rogue antivirus malware that targets the Macintosh operating system does not need victims to type in their administrator passwords to install and infect the machine, a security company reported. The latest version of the malware has been overhauled to look like a native Mac OS X application and
SAN FRANCISCO - A security researcher in Italy has discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer that he says could enable hackers to steal cookies from a PC and then log onto password-protected Web sites. Referring to the exploit as "cookiejacking," Rosario Valotta claims that a zero-day vulnerability found in every version of Microsoft's IE under
TOKYO - Sony has made good on its promise to offer PlayStation Network and Qriocity users a free way to keep their identity safe, CNET News.Com reports. Subscribers to those services can go to a new page that Sony has set up and input an e-mail address to start the process of joining AllClear ID
YPSILANTI - To help small businesses learn how they can protect their digital information, the EMU Information Assurance program will host an introduction to business security June 9 at the EMU Student Center. The conference is co-sponsored by the Washtenaw County Cyber Citizen Coalition. ?This is a networking opportunity for businesses and our students,? said
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - If you are a Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) customer you are probably getting a little paranoid. First there was the data breach from last month that exposed customer data and forced Sony to take the network down. And now, just days after Sony got the service back up and running, it
DALLAS - Two researchers say they canceled a talk at a security conference this week on how to attack critical infrastructure systems, after U.S. cybersecurity and Siemens representatives asked them not to discuss their work publicly. "We were asked very nicely if we could refrain from providing that information at this time," Dillon Beresford, an
SAN FRANCISCO - Global software piracy reached a record figure of $59 billion last year, a new study from the Business Software Alliance has found. That figure represents a 14 percent increase compared with 2009 and a doubling since 2003, the trade group said today. Forty-two percent of PC software was pirated worldwide last year,