SAN FRANCISCO - Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed that it was the victim of an "illegal attack," one day after hackers posted what they said were about 90,000 military e-mail addresses purloined from a server of the consulting firm. Hackers also today said they were targeting Monsanto and oil companies in their protests. "Booz
NEW YORK - Some law-enforcement agencies are preparing to deploy a mobile facial-recognition tool, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, about 40 law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. will be making the handheld product available to their officers in the field as early as September. The device, which has been developed by Massachusetts-based
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech will host a three-part series of free educational webinars on modern security standards starting July 19 at 2pm ET. The educational webinar series will focus on HIPAA compliance, network and application security, and new solutions for cloud computing security. ?Protecting sensitive information is becoming increasingly important for companies, especially with
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GRANDVILLE ? Trivalent Group will host BIASurvivor, a no-cost disaster recovery workshop for the business community, July 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its Grandville headquarters. Disaster recovery experts from Trivalent Group will share strategies to increase an organization?s survivability by building an effective business continuity plan. A University of Texas study of
SAN FRANCISCO - Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detailed a new botnet - a collection of infected computers controlled by cybercriminals - called TDL-4, that might just be "indestructible." TDL-4 gets its name by being the fourth generation of the botnet. In 2008, the original TDL appeared. It has been altered over the last
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google may see its Chrome operating system as more secure than traditional alternatives, but one security researcher believes the cloud-based OS is vulnerable, according to a Reuters story. WhiteHat Security researcher Matt Johansen said he found a flaw in a Chrome OS application that he was able to exploit to gain control
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Police are investigating a possible data breach at a NATO-related Web site. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said the "probable data breach" involved NATO's e-Bookshop, a service for releasing documents to the public that's operated by an external company. The site does not contain classified documents, NATO said in a statement Thursday,
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous is picking up where the apparently disbanded LulzSec left off. The hacking organization released information to the Web last night that came from the Cyberterrorism Defense Initiative's Security and Network Training Initiative and National Education Laboratory (Sentinel) program. The Sentinel program is administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and
SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Cleary, the alleged hacker who was arrested last week and subsequently charged in the U.K. with five counts of hacking, has been released from jail. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith granted Cleary bail today but imposed some limitations on the 19-year-old, CNET News.Com reported. According to the U.K.'s Mirror, Cleary has a 9