TOKYO - Sony has made good on its promise to offer PlayStation Network and Qriocity users a free way to keep their identity safe, CNET News.Com reports. Subscribers to those services can go to a new page that Sony has set up and input an e-mail address to start the process of joining AllClear ID
CUPERTINO, Ca. - A new version of rogue antivirus malware that targets the Macintosh operating system does not need victims to type in their administrator passwords to install and infect the machine, a security company reported. The latest version of the malware has been overhauled to look like a native Mac OS X application and
SAN FRANCISCO - A security researcher in Italy has discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer that he says could enable hackers to steal cookies from a PC and then log onto password-protected Web sites. Referring to the exploit as "cookiejacking," Rosario Valotta claims that a zero-day vulnerability found in every version of Microsoft's IE under
YPSILANTI - To help small businesses learn how they can protect their digital information, the EMU Information Assurance program will host an introduction to business security June 9 at the EMU Student Center. The conference is co-sponsored by the Washtenaw County Cyber Citizen Coalition. ?This is a networking opportunity for businesses and our students,? said
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - If you are a Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) customer you are probably getting a little paranoid. First there was the data breach from last month that exposed customer data and forced Sony to take the network down. And now, just days after Sony got the service back up and running, it
DALLAS - Two researchers say they canceled a talk at a security conference this week on how to attack critical infrastructure systems, after U.S. cybersecurity and Siemens representatives asked them not to discuss their work publicly. "We were asked very nicely if we could refrain from providing that information at this time," Dillon Beresford, an
SAN FRANCISCO - Global software piracy reached a record figure of $59 billion last year, a new study from the Business Software Alliance has found. That figure represents a 14 percent increase compared with 2009 and a doubling since 2003, the trade group said today. Forty-two percent of PC software was pirated worldwide last year,
LANSING ? Lansing ISSA will host the second annual Netwars Challenge Saturday at Michigan State University. Continuing education credits and prizes, including a laptop computer and a Motorola Xoom WiFi tablet, are the door prizes. The event will first instruct users and present materials on how to exploit system vulnerabilities. Then a hands-on event will
SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. said computer hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for 24.6 million customer accounts as part of a broader attack on the company that has compromised data for more than 100 million accounts. Sony Online Entertainment, a San Diego-based subsidiary that makes multiplayer games
MOSCOW - A spokesman for Moscow-based antivirus company Kaspersky Lab said the company is not commenting on reports that the son of Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky has been kidnapped. "We don't have any information to share at the moment. I'll let you know if that changes," the spokesman said in an e-mail to CNET today.