SAN JOSE - In a forthcoming paper, Google engineers float the idea of supplementing passwords with hardware you wear. Or carry. Or slip onto a finger. Hardly a day goes by that some high-profile person -- along with countless people of lower profile -- has an account hacked. Weak password, stolen password, non-existent password --
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous has set its sights on Mexico's Department of Defense. The group's Mexican legion has claimed responsibility for waging a distributed-denial-of-service attack on the government site, rendering it inoperable for several hours yesterday, according to the Associated Press. During the attack, the group posted a statement on the media section of the
WASHINGTON DC - A new draft bill published today aims to increase privacy for mobile app users. Led by U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), the bill aims to legally require app developers to publicize how they gather information and also let users request deletion of their stored data, CNET News.Com reported. To create the draft
MOSCOW - Kaspersky has turned up a cyber-espoinage operation its dubbed "Red October," and it's up there in the big leagues. But unlike its cohorts, it doesn't look state-sponsored. This is a freelance job, and it's professional grade. While Red October has only recently been discovered, it's been working behind the scenes for a long
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous may have convinced the Westboro Baptist Church to cancel its planned protest of the funeral of Aaron Swartz. A day after the news came out that the 26-year-old online activist had committed suicide, the members of WBC stated their intention to picket his funeral, which took place this week. A press
REDMOND, Wa. - Windows RT can be hacked to run unsigned desktop apps, but Microsoft sees no reason to worry. As described yesterday, the hack allows someone with a certain amount of savvy to change code in the Windows RT kernel so the tablet-based OS can run desktop apps. Officially, the only desktop programs that
SAN FRANCISCO - Security flaws in Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat could have been the cause of computer crashes recently. The software company announced that it sent out updates for these three programs, which are meant to patch security vulnerabilities that cause such system crashes. "These updates address a vulnerability that could cause a crash
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of thousands of websites are potentially at risk following the discovery of an extremely critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails framework that gives remote attackers the ability to execute malicious code on the underlying servers. The bug stems from the way Rails handles formatted parameters. The bug is present in
REDMOND - Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday rolls around next week. But one flaw that won't be fixed in the mix is the latest zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. Last Saturday, Microsoft warned about the zero-day flaw in IE 6, 7, and 8 that could allow attackers to gain control of Windows computers to host malicious
BEIJING, China ? China will now require all citizens to use their real names when signing up for an Internet account and force Internet providers to delete posts deemed illegal. A decision approved today by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress institutes an "identity management policy," according to China's official Xinhua news agency,