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SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Russian Gang’s Credentials Theft Exposes Web’s Wild, Wild West Side

News that a Russian gang has stockpiled more than a billion purloined user name and password combinations has revved up the Internet's reputation as a post industrial Wild, Wild West ...

Cyberspies Help Themselves to DHS Contractor’s Data

USIS, the contractor that did the background checks on Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis and NSA leaker Edward Snowden, on Thursday reported that its computer systems have been breached ...

BlackBerry Ripe for Growth, Predicts CEO Chen

BlackBerry -- the "sick man of mobile" -- is poised for better times ...

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Retailers Harassed by Backoff Malware

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week sounded an alarm warning retailers of a family of malicious programs aimed at compromising point-of-sale systems. Attackers used such software last year in massive data breaches that nicked millions of consumer records at Target and Nieman Marcus ...

Cops Snag Child Pornography Suspect, Thanks to Gmail Scan

A routine scan of a Texas man's Gmail by Google has led to his arrest on child pornography possession and promotion charges ...

That Innocent Little Thumb Drive Could Be Big Security Trouble

USB flash drives could be at risk of a pernicious attack on their firmware ...

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Hackers Back to Their Old Tricks

Old tricks that have helped hackers penetrate computers for months or longer worked again last week at Goodwill and Stubhub ...

Leahy Bill Aims to Rein In Government Snooping

Government snooping on Americans would be curtailed under a bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate ...

Swell Deal Could Give Apple Something to Talk About

It appears Apple is close to acquiring talk radio app Swell for US$30 million.Much of Swell's development team will be joining Apple, and the app will be shut down sometime this week, Re/code reported ...

Apple Trusts a Million Users to Check Out Yosemite

In a rare move, Apple on Thursday rolled out a beta version of its upcoming desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite, to a million "testers." ...

Patent Tips Apple’s iWatch Hand

A patent awarded on Tuesday to Apple may be a tip-off of what the company is planning for the smartwatch it's widely expected to introduce this fall ...

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Failure to Communicate Hamstrings Cyberdefenders

A failure to communicate between security pros and company brass may be contributing to the inability of a significant number of organizations to reduce the risk of cyberattacks on their systems ...

EU Rides Apple Over Weak In-App Purchase Policies

The European Union last year adopted a "common position" on how purchases made within mobile and online applications should be treated by operators of app stores. Now, seven months later, Google has been heaped with praise for striving to comply with EU guidance on in-app buys, while Apple has been rebuked for dragging its feet ...

Siri May Be Starting a Hope Chest

It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but the cloud is pretty close ...

Google, Novartis Team on ‘Invisible’ Health Monitor

Novartis' Alcon eye care division has entered an in-license agreement governing all ocular medical uses for Google's smart contact lenses, it announced Tuesday ...

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Windows XP Hacked, Supply Chain Poisoned

A supply chain compromise is a security pro's worst nightmare. The thought of malware being planted on computer devices before they leave the factory sends shivers down a cyberdefender's spine. A disturbing case of such poisoning was reported last week by researchers at TrapX ...

Internet Heavyweights Lock Arms to Block Fast Lane

A trade association including Amazon, Google and Netflix on Monday called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules banning deals by broadband providers for faster delivery of some Internet traffic ...

New IoT Group to Get Devices Talking Among Themselves

Half a dozen companies this week announced a new organization to ensure that the billions of devices that will be added to the Internet in coming years will be able to communicate with each other ...

Nadella Spells Out Microsoft’s Bold Ambitions

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday mapped out his vision for the company's future, emphasizing cloud and mobile computing, in a letter to all employees. The letter also appeared on the company's website ...

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Report: Malware Poisons One-Third of World’s Computers

Nearly one-third of the world's computers could be infected with malware, suggests a report released last week by the Anti-Phishing Working Group ...

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