Think your password is secure? You may need to think again. People's perceptions of password strength may not always match reality, according to a recent study by CyLab, Carnegie Mellon's Security and Privacy Institute. For example, study participants expected ieatkale88 to ...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 05:51
- By Barbara Larson
A decade-old vulnerability in Intel chips has been discovered, leaving thousands of Windows computers susceptible to hijacking and remote takeovers. Intel disclosed the critical bug last week and the weakness appears to be in the Active Management Technology (AMT) feature used by IT administrators t...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 03:30
- By Issac Avila
One of the most popular passwords in 2016 was "qwertyuiop," even though most password meters will tell you how weak that is. The problem is no existing meters offer any good advice to make it better—until now. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago have just unve...
- Monday, 08 May 2017 13:34
- By Edna Thomas
An unusually sophisticated identity phishing campaign appeared to target Google's roughly 1 billion Gmail users worldwide, seeking to gain control of their entire email histories and spread itself to all of their contacts, Google confirmed Wednesday. The worm — which arrived in users' inboxes pos...
- Monday, 08 May 2017 00:01
- By Alex Grey
Achieving internet privacy is possible but often requires overlapping services It’s one of the internet’s oft-mentioned 'creepy' moments. A user is served a banner ad in their browser promoting products on a site they visited hours, days or months in the past. It’s as if the ads are following ...
- Saturday, 06 May 2017 01:32
- By Alex Grey
President Trump will be watching and listening. Time to batten down the hatches. Protecting individual privacy from government intrusion is older than American democracy. In 1604, the attorney general of England, Sir Edward Coke, ruled that a man’s house is his castle. This was the official decla...
- Friday, 05 May 2017 09:31
- By Martin Grossner
Google has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals to determine authority on a page-by-page basis. Google’s fight against problematic content has drawn renewed attention to a common question: how does Google know what’s authoritative? The simple answer is that it has no ...
- Friday, 05 May 2017 09:03
- By Logan Hochstetler
A decision earlier this year by the U.S. Congress to overturn rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission that would have prevented internet service providers from collecting user information without permission has given people a new reason to be concerned about their online pri...
- Friday, 05 May 2017 05:53
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Security researchers have found a music player app in the Google Play Store, which has already been downloaded by thousands of users, to be riddled with malicious malware. Going by the name "Super Free Music Player", the app was uploaded to Google Play on 31 March and has already garnered between 5,...
- Thursday, 04 May 2017 00:19
- By Anna K. Sasaki
A FEW HOURS after dark one evening earlier this month, a small quadcopter drone lifted off from the parking lot of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. It soon trained its built-in camera on its target, a desktop computer’s tiny blinking light inside a third-floor office nearby. The pinpoi...
- Tuesday, 02 May 2017 09:27
- By James Gill
A few search terms can lead to an exposed Internet connection. That's apparently how an Iranian hacker accessed a dam in New York state. Bad guys and good guys alike can use Google to find vulnerable targets online. What matters most, then, is who's fastest. "Google dorking." It sounds goofy, but it...
- Tuesday, 02 May 2017 06:39
- By Corey Parker
THE NSA, IT seems, isn’t the only American spy agency hacking the world. Judging by a new, nearly 9,000-page trove of secrets from WikiLeaks, the CIA has developed its own surprisingly wide array of intrusion tools, too. On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released what it’s callin...
- Tuesday, 02 May 2017 05:18
- By Edna Thomas
FEBRUARY 10, 2017 —By day, John Bambenek is a successful, if pretty ordinary, cybersecurity professional. The 39-year-old father of four spends most of his days trying to safeguard a bevy of corporate clients from malicious hackers. He analyzes digital threats for the Bethesda, Md., firm Fidelis C...
- Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:34
- By Edna Thomas
The most expensive security systems running on the most advanced devices can now be circumvented using nothing more than a $5 tool and access to a USB port. Even password-protected machines are at risk as there's little they can do to prevent the attack besides filling their USB ports with cement. ...
- Sunday, 30 April 2017 04:55
- By Barbara Larson
It used to be that Mac users didn’t really have to worry about malware. But we live in a brave new world with easy internet access and a bunch of jerks, so the good ‘ole days are over. A new strain of Mac malware uses a familiar method to gain entry to your computer, but it’s the way it take...
- Saturday, 29 April 2017 05:29
- By Eric Beaudoin
With the start of a new year, scammers are preparing to steal money from a sea of new victims. With that in mind, we've assembled a list of five of the most common scams, as determined by the Better Business Bureau. 1. IRS SCAMS Phony IRS calls have declined slightly since September, but the BBB ant...
- Saturday, 29 April 2017 05:24
- By Edna Thomas
Major tech companies admit they were the victims of a phishing attack Google and Facebook were phished for more than $100 million (about €92 million), it has been reported, in a case which proves that not even the biggest technology companies in the world are immune from the increasingly sophis...
- Saturday, 29 April 2017 03:48
- By Anthony Frank
In 2016, approximately 185 million new Internet users went online, with the vast majority of these coming from nations like India. This represents a huge increase in the market. However, while the Internet population continues to grow, there has also been an increase in bots as well. The word "bot...
- Friday, 28 April 2017 08:57
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Security researcher Gal Beniamini — who works for Google’s Project Zero — recently unearthed a serious vulnerability affecting the Wi-Fi chipsets used in both iOS and Android devices. Detailing the proof-of-concept attack at length, Beniamini explains in an interesting blogpost ...
- Friday, 28 April 2017 08:38
- By Linda Manly
The following is a translation of an article written by Russian journalist Darya Luganskaya. The post has been edited for clarity and length, and reprinted with the author's permission. You can read the original text here. “The Internet was created as a special project by the CIA, and is develo...
- Friday, 28 April 2017 04:37
- By Eric Beaudoin
android falseguide news malware More Another week, another Android malware. Android malware often takes the form of infected apps on the Google Play Store, and a new variant called FalseGuide has been discovered by security company Check Point. While Google has been pushing monthly security updates...
- Friday, 28 April 2017 02:18
- By Anthony Frank
Net Neutrality is without question one of the most important principles in modern life. Whether you realize it or not, the idea that web services should be provided equally without preference to one type of traffic or another has been the cornerstone of the web as we know it. And the Trump administr...
- Friday, 28 April 2017 01:41
- By Barbara Larson
While the internet population continues to grow, there has also been an increase in bots as well. In 2016, approximately 185 million new internet users came online, with the vast majority of these coming from nations like India. This represents a huge increase in the market. However, while the inter...
- Wednesday, 26 April 2017 07:47
- By Linda Manly
I’m very privacy-minded. I’ve written quite frequently about securing your browser and network on the Mac. I figure it’s about time to give the iPhone some loving, since there are a number of ways to make sure you have a good experience browsing while keeping things private. Let’s look at so...
- Wednesday, 26 April 2017 01:46
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Internet trolls are powerless without anonymity: By obscuring their identities behind random screen names, they can engage in hateful exchanges and prey on complete strangers without fear of retaliation. In doing so, they illustrate one troubling characteristic of humankind: People are shi...
- Tuesday, 25 April 2017 01:03
- By Anthony Frank
