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New York man accused of child porn downloads after being WiFi-jacked
New York man accused of child porn downloads after being WiFi-jacked
One of the many reasons for securing your WiFi access point were rammed home recently after a New York man woke up to be surrounded by armed police early one morning.
April 27, 2011
Congress to examine location-tracking issue after allegations about Apple and Android devices
Congress to examine location-tracking issue after allegations about Apple and Android devices
Congress will hold a hearing about mobile phones and privacy after claims that Apple (and Android) devices have been secretly tracking users' location data.
April 27, 2011
US Congress to examine location-tracking issue after allegations about Apple and Android devices
US Congress to examine location-tracking issue after allegations about Apple and Android devices
The US Congress will hold a hearing about mobile phones and privacy after claims that Apple (and Android) devices have been secretly tracking users' location data.
April 27, 2011
Millions apply for Olympic tickets despite site crash
Millions apply for Olympic tickets despite site crash
Around 20 million tickets for the London 2012 Olympics were applied for on Tuesday night despite a surge in demand causing the site to crash.
April 27, 2011
Eugene Kaspersky's son reported safe after gang of five kidnappers arrested
Eugene Kaspersky's son reported safe after gang of five kidnappers arrested
Reports are coming in that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of Kaspersky Labs, has been returned to his parents following a covert operation carried out by the FSB, the Russian security police agency.
April 26, 2011
Social Security Administration publishes private data of the living on death list
Social Security Administration publishes private data of the living on death list
The Social Security Administration (SSA) published personally identifiable information, including social security numbers, of 36,657 living individuals erroneously listed on the agency’s death master file (DMF) over a three year period, the SSA’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded.
April 26, 2011
Facebook intros two-factor authentication to beef up security
Facebook intros two-factor authentication to beef up security
Facebook has begun introducing two-factor authentication designed to prevent hackers from accessing users' accounts.
April 25, 2011
Oak Ridge National Lab shuts down internet access after phishing attack
Oak Ridge National Lab shuts down internet access after phishing attack
A phishing email attack that injected data-stealing malware into its networks forced the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to shut down internet access and email last week, according to news reports.
April 22, 2011
Transition to IPv6 poses information security challenges, says Fortinet
Transition to IPv6 poses information security challenges, says Fortinet
Information security challenges are confronting organizations as they transition from IPv4 to IPv6, according to Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing at network security appliance provider Fortinet.
April 22, 2011
Infosecurity Europe 2011: NuBridges intros cloud-based tokenisation-as-a-service
Infosecurity Europe 2011: NuBridges intros cloud-based tokenisation-as-a-service
NuBridges, an authentication services specialist that has just been acquired by Liaison Technologies, has taken the wraps off what it claims is the industry's first tokenisation-as-a-service (TaaS) facility that stores all data in the cloud.
April 22, 2011
Eugene Kaspersky's son missing, reported kidnapped
Eugene Kaspersky's son missing, reported kidnapped
Infosecurity is saddened to report that the 20-year-old student son of Kaspersky Labs founder Yevgeny (Eugene) Kaspersky has gone missing and may have been kidnapped.
April 22, 2011
Skype fixes flaw in Skype for Android application
Skype fixes flaw in Skype for Android application
Skype has released a new version of Skype for Android that fixes a vulnerability in the application identified last week. Adrian Asher, Skype’s chief information security officer, announced the news in recent blog.
April 22, 2011