For all of their benefits when it comes to enabling consumer communication, peer-to-peer networks have been notorious hideouts for pirated content and other things that wish to elude detection. They’re providing cover now for something else: malware.
18 June 2013
New Snowden revelations revealed that the NSA and GCHQ do traditional spying too – eavesdropping on the Russian president’s phone calls out of London and the delegates at the G20 2009 meeting in London.
18 June 2013
Less than a week after Apple unveiled the beta version of Apple iOS7 at its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) confab, an enterprising tech-head has managed to bypass its screen-lock security.
17 June 2013
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a malware alert, warning that medical devices that contain configurable embedded computer systems can be vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches.
17 June 2013
Microsoft has launched two-factor authentication for its Azure cloud platform based on technology acquired with the purchase of PhoneFactor in October 2012: Active Authentication.
17 June 2013
Saudi Arabia is cracking down on communications tools that bypass the Kingdom’s monitoring capabilities and affect the revenue of the indigenous telecommunications companies.
17 June 2013
Despite increased focus on the security holes that bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies and the consumerization of IT present within the enterprise, research from AppSense has revealed that the threat to corporate IT security hasn't really abated at all – especially with consumers circumventing IT altogether in some cases when it comes to mobile working.
14 June 2013
BlackBerry released two security bulletins this week, one of which addresses Adobe Flash flaws in the software for the Blackberry Playbook tablet and Blackberry Z10 touchscreen smartphone.
13 June 2013
At the end of May, Google announced that its security engineers would be operating to a new official timeline for the disclosure of vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited.
12 June 2013
When the NSA's surveillance program was first revealed by Edward Snowden last week, initial reaction was that it was a US issue. But with the realization that the greater part of the world's internet traffic is at some point routed via the US, the worldwide ramifications are becoming better understood and questioned.
12 June 2013