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The hacker group Anonymous posted a YouTube video vowing that Friday, Oct. 5, will be "the biggest thing we have ever done." The video does not get into specifics, but the threat comes amid several DDoS attacks against various Swedish agencies, including the National Board of Health and Welfare, whi...
Google-owned Motorola Mobility is acquiring Viewdle, a Ukrainian firm that makes facial recognition technology. Motorola had been in talks with Viewdle before it was acquired by Google. The acquisition of Viewdle, a pioneer in technology that recognizes and tags people in photos, figures to be a boo...
The Federal Trade Commission has put a stop to a handful of tech-support scams based mainly in India that promised to remove viruses or other malware from users' computers. The scams primarily involved telemarketers contacting people in the United States and other English-speaking countries, falsely...
Apple's Asian component suppliers reportedly have begun mass-producing parts for a new tablet, which is believed to be smaller, and with a lower resolution, than the latest iPad that went on sale last March. Last month, South Korean LG Display and Taiwanese AU Optronics reportedly began mass-produci...
The Iranian government announced on Sunday that Gmail and Google would be filtered nationwide until further notice, and it also sent out the notice as a text message to citizens' mobile phones. Google Search is accessible but isn't functioning properly, Google services which need a secure SSL connec...
When Paul Steiner published his 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," little did he know it would become a mantra among security professionals, especially those concerned about authenticating identities on the Net. The job of finding ways to i...
The White House is close to completing an executive order on cybersecurity, Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano has reportedly stated. This order aims to protect the United States' critical infrastructure -- our electric grid, water systems and transportation networks -- from cyberattacks.
Citing recent threats of cyberattacks, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry body set up by the financial services industry, has raised its cyberthreat level from "elevated" to "high." It points to credible intelligence indicating the potential for distributed d...
Online payment service PayPal will prevent users in Argentina from making domestic transfers. PayPal users in Argentina will only be able to send and receive "international payments" starting on Oct. 9. The move is apparently linked to the Argentine government's 2011 decision to restrict the purchas...
Microsoft won court approval to pursue cybercriminals infiltrating its supply chain as part of an ongoing investigation into malware-infected computers. The company's Digital Crimes Unit bought computers from PC malls in China only to find brand-new laptop and desktop computers infected with preins...
Web hosting company and self-proclaimed world's largest domain registrar GoDaddy suffered a major outage on Monday, taking down what's believed to have been millions of websites. A hacker with the handle of AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility in a Twitter feed. The hacker is apparently not connect...
Once upon a time, security shiners involving Apple were as rare as Windows Vista lovers, but now it seems that a week doesn't go by without the name of Steve Jobs' baby being dragged through the digital mud. Last week's episode involved the hacktivist group AntiSec and the FBI. AntiSec claimed it co...
The gang behind Operation Aurora, a coordinated attack that hit Google and tens of other large United States corporations, is alive, well and hacking away, Symantec said. Over the last three years, the gang has used lots of zero-day attacks against not just defense corporations, but also the manufac...
There is no off switch for the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who's widely acknowledged as the father of the Web, said in London when launching the World Wide Web Index report for 2012. The Index assesses the use, utility and impact of the Web around the world. It looked at 61 countries. It shows th...
Oracle acted swiftly last week to close a zero-day vulnerability in its Java technology, but given Java's track record, that patch is just one hit in a long game of wackamole played with hackers. A number of security companies discovered the vulnerability over the weekend of Aug. 25. They noticed th...
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