SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is shaking up the way it confirms whether you're the rightful owner of your iOS device or Mac. Built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, a system called "two-factor authentication" will add an extra layer of security that can keep your Apple account more secure, even if someone
WASHIGTON DC - The federal government announced Thursday that the total number of people affected by cyberattacks on the US government's personnel office was more than 22 million. The agency said 21.5 million Social Security numbers were stolen from one source and 4.2 million from another. Both attacks were announced in June. Some people were
BATTLE CREEK - If you used a credit or debit card to buy food, beverages, or retail goods at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel between Sept. 7, 2014, and April 25, 2015, your personal data is at risk. FireKeepers said some 85,000 cards may have been hacked. An investigation showed someone gained unauthorized access to the
WASHINGTON DC - A CIA-backed startup has discovered login credentials and passwords for 47 US government agencies littered across the Internet - leaving federal agencies potentially at risk of cyberattack. Recorded Future, a Boston-based data mining firm backed by the CIA's venture capital arm, said in a research report that credentials belonging to 47 US
ANN ARBOR - Over the next few weeks, MITechNews.Com will be publishing excerpts from cybersecurity expert Richard Stiennon's latest book, called There Will Be Cyberwar. The book makes the case that the US military rushed to "network everything" and, like most organizations, neglected to secure its most critical systems, opening the door to a
SAN FRANCISCO - Millions of Samsung Galaxy smartphone owners may be at risk of eavesdropping of calls, theft of data and installation of malware - and there isn't much they can do about it. The flaw is found in Swiftkey keyboard software preinstalled on 600 million of the South Korean electronics giant's smartphones, mobile security
SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Tuesday launched the Android Security Awards program, offering researchers who seek out bugs and flaws in Android to make some cash on their discoveries. Google has assigned a $500 bounty on "Moderate" severity bugs, but will double that to $1,000 for "High" severity and hand over $2,000 for "Critical" bugs.
MOSCOW - A spokesman for Kaspersky Lab said Wednesday its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. But Kaspersky's customer's data is safe, the company said. The sophisticated attack stayed away from user information and focused instead on Kapersky's own systems and intellectual property, the company told CNET.Com.
SAN FRANCISCO - A December breach of government systems containing personal information of millions of federal employees - suspected to be the work of China - was worse than originally thought. A union of federal workers said Thursday that the attack, announced last week, had stolen confidential information of every single federal employee, past or
WASHINGTON DC - The US National Security Agency has had its wings clipped a bit. On Tuesday, the US Senate approved the USA Freedom Act, legislation that will curtail the federal government's sweeping surveillance of millions of Americans' phone records. Later in the day, President Barack Obama signed the bill into law. The legislation, which