SAN FRANCISCO - Your Android-based smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart argues in a video posted earlier this week. In the nearly 20-minute video clip, Eckhart shows how software developed by mobile-device tracker Carrier IQ logs each keystroke and then sends them off to locations unknown. In
WASHINGTON DC - The Department of Homeland Security and FBI dismissed the conclusions of a report that a cyber intrusion caused a pump at an Illinois water utility to burn out. But the statement doesn't explain why an Illinois state terrorism intelligence center would say it was a hacker when it wasn't. In the meantime,
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is strengthening the encryption on Gmail and other services so that messages stored today can't easily be decrypted later by faster computers using brute force methods. The company is enabling what is called "forward secrecy" by default, Adam Langley from Google's security team, wrote in a blog post reported by CNET
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI and Philippine law enforcement officials arrested four people in the Philippines this week who were allegedly paid by terrorists to hack into AT&T's system, but the company said its system was not breached. The four, who were arrested Wednesday in Manila, were paid by the same Saudi Arabian-based terrorist group
SAN FRANCISCO - Malware targeted toward Android devices continues to surge, says a new report from McAfee, pushing 2011 to become the busiest year in history for both mobile and general malware. The amount of malware infecting Android devices during the third quarter grew almost 37 percent from the second quarter, according to McAfee's Third-Quarter
NEW YORK - Spurred in part by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, surveillance has become a more important method of trying to protect people from terrorist activity, or to root out dissident activity. And there's no shortage of companies looking to supply the gear that can do those jobs. Some of the tech
NOVI - Red Level Networks, the Novi IT products and services provider, said Monday that it has expanded the company by adding new offices in Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids. As part of Red Level Networks? initiative to support Michigan?s growing economy, this expansion helps relieve these cities of vacant office space while supporting local
SAN FRANCISCO - A new survey indicates that 55 percent of users globally, and 64 percent in the U.S., are leveraging Next-Generation Firewalls to augment their current security deployments, rather than replacing legacy technology. The survey, conducted by Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by Sourcefire, also highlights the need for NGFWs to prioritize quality of Intrusion
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SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Justice said today that it has uncovered a large, sophisticated Internet scam ring that netted $14 million by infecting millions of computers with malware designed to redirect their Web searches to sites that generated ad revenue. Six people have been arrested in Estonia and a Russian is being