NEW YORK - Tapping a link on your smartphone to watch a new music video might sound harmless, but it got one 12-year-old girl from Tennessee into trouble last year. Instead of a video, the preteen -- whose name has not been disclosed because of her age -- had unwittingly installed malicious software that downloaded
WASHINGTON DC - Cybersecurity reforms are now a top priority of President Barack Obama. Whether Congress will care remains an open issue. During his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, the president barely tipped his hat to major cybersecurity reform proposals he introduced in speeches last week. They included streamlining the current patchwork
DETROIT - Online Tech is hosting free Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery workshops in Indianapolis on January 22 and in Detroit on February 19. The sessions will feature three industry experts who will guide attendees through BCDR planning strategies and real-world scenario exercises. Instructors, who have more than 60 years of combined IT experience, are:
LANSING - You've probably heard the phrase, "Failure is the key to success." But are security professionals really learning from their mistakes? As identity theft and online risks keep growing, is our industry rising to the challenge or repeating the miscues of the past? While security technology is improving, the bad guys also have access
WASHINGTON DC - The head of the FBI says the hackers responsible for Sony's data breach "got sloppy," which enabled forensics teams to unmask the culpable country. "The Interview" is screening at hundreds theaters across the United States, though not at the thousands as originally planned, CNET News.Com reported. FBI chief James Comey says that
NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest financial services firms, revealed Monday its customer information was breached. But it wasn't the result of determined hackers or sophisticated email attacks. Instead, Morgan Stanley said it was an employee who stole data from more than 350,000 customer accounts. The move is a wake-up call
SAN FRANCISCO - Players around the world are now breathing a sigh of relief as they settle into some long overdue gaming during the holiday break. Starting around December 24, two of the largest online gaming services, Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live, were disrupted in a high-profile denial-of-service attack, which was resolved a
SAN FRANCISCO - Let's face it, 2014 was a terrible year for computer security, leaving everyone feeling a little more vulnerable. Hackers stole 56 million credit card numbers and 53 million email addresses from Home Depot between April and September. They took contact information for 76 million households and 7 million small businesses from JPMorgan's
SAN FRANCISCO - Japan is boosting its online defenses for fear of becoming the next victim of a North Korean cyberattack, according to a new report. The Japanese government is formulating a possible diplomatic response and improving its cyberdefenses in the event that its networks are hacked by North Korea, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing comments
WASHINGTON DC - Few companies could have prevented the cyberattack that devastated Sony Pictures, the FBI said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on cybersecurity and the finance industry. "[T]he malware that was used would have gotten past 90 percent of the Net defenses that are out there today in private industry and [would have