WASHINGTON DC - A full 50 percent of Internet users surveyed say they're concerned about the growing amount of personal information revealed about them online. A study released Thursday by Pew Internet found that more people are worried about certain information now available online, including photos, videos, e-mail addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, home addresses,
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network and the Michigan Cyber Range Thursday announced the new Merit Secure Sandbox service, a virtual environment that lets users practice, train, and test cybersecurity techniques, is now operational. Merit Secure Sandbox is designed for instructors to set up their own virtual environments for cybersecurity training. It is also aimed at
WASHINGTON DC - The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a preliminary cybersecurity draft framework outlining standards, best practices and guidance expected to be codified in October as directed by President Barack Obama's February executive order. A NIST spokesperson said the documents released Aug. 28 are a discussion draft ahead of NIST's upcoming meeting
WASHINGTON DC - The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are increasingly aware of the threats that law enforcement officers and officials face at a federal, state, and local level by using older versions of the Android mobile operating system, according to a document obtained by Public Intelligence, a group focused on releasing government
SAN FRANCISCO - The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites. The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as [email protected]. The site continued to function, however.
BEIJING, China ? China's Internet was taken down in an attack on Sunday that could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or an individual, security experts say. According to The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported on the outage, China on Sunday was hit with what the government has called the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palestinian IT expert who claimed to have discovered a Facebook vulnerability said he took his bug report to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after being ignored by the social network's security team. The vulnerability allows anyone to post anything to anyone else's page, regardless of whether they are a Facebook friend of
SAN FRANCISCO - Distributed denial of service attacks have been used to divert security personnel attention while millions of dollars were stolen from banks, according to a security researcher. At least three US banks in recent months have been plundered by fraudulent wire transfers while hackers deployed "low powered" DDoS attacks to mask their theft,
WASHINGTON DC - The Energy Department on Wednesday notified workers that a hack in late July exposed personal information, such as the names and Social Security numbers of current and past employees, and that 14,000 people may have been affected. According to the e-mail, obtained by the Wall Street Journal and reported by CNET News.Com,
HOUSTON - A Houston couple on Tuesday revealed to ABC News that earlier this month, the baby monitor they use for their daughter was hacked and the hacker shouted obscenities at the sleeping 2-year-old girl as well as her parents who had not changed the default log in or password. The baby monitor connected to