SAN FRANCISCO - Usernames and passwords leaked onto the open internet earlier this month because of a security bug that affected 3,400 websites, including popular services like Uber, Fitbit and OkCupid. You wouldn't mind if someone could break into the personal accounts you use to track your movements, your fitness and your love life, would
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo users found out Wednesday that hackers used a technical trick with cookies to log into their accounts without passwords. "Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account," Yahoo users were told in an email. Yahoo revealed the
WASHINGTON DC - Visitors to the US might be asked to relinquish their social media passwords to border agents as part of an attempt to tighten security checks. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the House Homeland
WASHINGTON DC - Rep. Mike Pompeo will lead the Central Intelligence Agency, after the US Senate confirmed his nomination Monday evening in a vote of 66 to 32. Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Law, currently represents Kansas in the House of Representatives. Casting some of those no votes were senators who raised
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're worried someone's trying to hack into your Facebook account, now you can lock it up with a key. On Thursday, the social media giant said it would let users link a hardware token to their accounts. When you log in from new browsers or geographic regions, you can plug the
SAN FRANCISCO - Future passwords could be more secure than anything you type, and all you'll have to do is look at your device's iris scanner to unlock it. Your eyes would serve as a more secure form of biometric security than your fingerprints, which hackers have been known to fool with high-resolution photos. The
SAN FRANCISCO - Evan Robertson won his school science fair this year by proving just how thoughtless people can be on public Wi-Fi networks. Evan, now 11, programmed fake Wi-Fi portals and took them to food courts shopping centers across the Austin, Texas, area and waited to see how many agreed to some pretty outrageous
WASHINGTON DC - Starting Dec. 1, federal investigators can seek permission from a magistrate to plant hacking software on a computer that’s disguising its location. The change affects Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which are proposed by the US Department of Justice and approved by the US Supreme Court. This form
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for "distributed denial of service attack," which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites
WASHINGTON DC - Russian hackers are attempting to alter the outcome of the US national election by tampering with voter registration databases with the simple goal of undermining confidence in one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. But cybersecurity experts said actually altering results is impossible because voter registration databases are not the
