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The danger lurking in mobile apps 22 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
(Editor’s note: In his guest essay, McAfee’s Gary Davis, Vice President, Global Consumer Marketing, outlines why you’d be wise to exercise caution downloading apps to your mobile devices.) By Gary Da...
Why online and mobile ads are ripe for hacking 20 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
SEATTLE — The multibillion-dollar Internet ad industry last week got a big wake-up call, courtesy of the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group with ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cracke...
How tools for targeted ads also boost targeted attacks 20 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
(Editor’s note: In this guest essay, Matt Huang, chief operating officer of web security firm Armorize Technologies, outlines why the hackers are increasingly exploiting ad networks.) Most of people ...
Two names surface tied to Syrian Electronic Army 20 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
SEATTLE – Rivalries in the hacking world can be interesting. Two names have surfaced in pastebin, the site where stolen docs and other evidence of hacking capers often surfaces, by someone using the h...
Analysis: Why big media is ripe for hacking 16 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
SEATTLE – Rather than directly attack the Washington Post, Time and CNN, hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) this morning seeded infections on recommendation site, Outbrain, knowing full wel...
Hacking assaults on media sites intensify 16 Aug 2013 | 03:31 am
SEATTLE — Middle Eastern hackers infiltrated a popular Internet news delivery service, giving them possible access to some of the largest U.S. news sites on Thursday. An online group called The Syria...
Why the New York Times website went dark 16 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
SEATTLE — Given multiple waves of denial of service attacks against U.S. banks by an Islamic group, the disabling Wednesday of the New York Times website had the cybersecurity community on alert. The...
Q&A: Snowden leak intensifies EU vs US privacy debate 13 Aug 2013 | 03:28 am
It’s a common practice for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants engaged in providing services over the Internet to replicate data in multiple datacenters. This is done to ensure qu...
Documentary looks at possible problems with smart grids 13 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
SEATTLE – Josh del Sol got curious in the summer of 2011 after a friend linked a serious illness to the recent installation of a “smart meter.” Del Sol subsequently learned that electrical utiliti...
Tech giants ask Obama to help save cloud computing 10 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
SEATTLE – Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing escapades could seriously undermine the growth of cloud computing and thus stifle the growth models for America’s biggest tech companies. And that appears to...
