MOUNTAIN VIEW - A group of tech companies looking to replace passwords for online identity authentication gained a powerful ally Tuesday in the form of Google. The consortium, called the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO), is working to develop standards-based alternatives for verifying a user's identity when trying to login to Web sites and online
SAN FRANCISCO - Cyberwarfare incidences jumped sharply in 2012, Akamai said, with the number of distributed denial of service attacks more than tripling from the previous year. Akamai, one of the world's largest globally distributed networks, told CNET News.Com its customers reported being targeted by 768 DDoS attacks last year, more than three times as
MT. CLEMENS - Macomb County's courts and other departments are back to pen-and-paper operations after a fire at the old county building Wednesday wiped out the county's servers and phone system. The county did not have a its data backed up off site. ?This is what we warned them about,? County Executive Mark Hackel told
WASHINGTON DC - Security firm McAfee is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to try to shore up America's defenses against cyberthreats. McAfee announced that the company is now part of the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership and will join cybersecurity professionals from both the private and public sector to tackle the escalating
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer data broker Acxiom plans to introduce a service that will reveal to people what it knows about them, according to a Financial Times report. The company, which is based in Little Rock, Ark., bills itself as an enterprise data, analytics, and software-as-a-service company. It serves 47 of the Fortune 100 companies,
WASHINGTON D.C. - Philip Lieberman, author and CEO of security firm Lieberman Software, believes United States is on the brink of suffering a major cyber attack from another nation state that will severely damage the country's national infrastructure. The security expert has spoken out as the U.S. falls into its latest bout of international confrontation,
SEOUL - South Korea has accused North Korea of launching a recent cyberattack that hit tens of thousands of PCs. A spokesman for South Korea's Internet agency said today that six computers in North Korea were identified as the source of the attack, according to The Guardian. Those computers used more than 1,000 IP addresses
WASHINGTON DC - Six cybertools have been designated as weapons by the U.S. Air Force, allowing the programs to better compete for increasingly scarce Pentagon funding, an Air Force official said on Monday. Lt. Gen. John Hyten, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told a conference held in conjunction with the National Space Symposium
NEW YORK - A major cyberattack against a European spam tracking company last week appears to have originated from a gang of Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Spamhaus, a Geneva-based spam tracking firm, had been the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack, where at one point traffic flowing to the site reached levels
REDMOND - Microsoft will toughen up its products' security by adding dual-factor authentication soon, according to a report by Liveside.net. Judging by details in the Microsoft-focused blog, the approach closely mirrors what Google did years ago: authorization requiring both a password (the first factor) and a special six-digit code retrieved from an authenticator app on