SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Tuesday launched the AndroidSecurity Awards program, offering researchers who seek out bugs and flaws in Android to make some cash on their discoveries. Google has assigned a $500 bounty on "Moderate" severity bugs, but will double that to $1,000 for "High" severity and hand over $2,000 for "Critical" bugs. Google
MOSCOW - A spokesman for Kaspersky Lab said Wednesday its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. But Kaspersky's customer's data is safe, the company said. The sophisticated attack stayed away from user information and focused instead on Kapersky's own systems and intellectual property, the company told CNET.Com.
SAN FRANCISCO - A December breach of government systems containing personal information of millions of federal employees - suspected to be the work of China - was worse than originally thought. A union of federal workers said Thursday that the attack, announced last week, had stolen confidential information of every single federal employee, past or
WASHINGTON DC - The US National Security Agency has had its wings clipped a bit. On Tuesday, the US Senate approved the USA Freedom Act, legislation that will curtail the federal government's sweeping surveillance of millions of Americans' phone records. Later in the day, President Barack Obama signed the bill into law. The legislation, which
NOVI - Dave Miller, the Chief Security Officer at Covisint, a B2B cloud company, says it is time to start thinking of cars as people. Give cars an identity. Make cars log into the cloud to collect updates, music, personal preferences, the lot. The big difference from today is credentials are not stored in
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google wants users to feel safe and secure when accessing websites and apps from their Android devices. It's why Google is encouraging developers will build in security safeguards with its Google Identity Platform. The Google Identity Platform, announced Thursday while developers are in San Francisco for the first day of Google's annual
SAN FRANCISCO - Tech companies, along with security experts, say President Obama should protect user data, putting them in direct competition with the country's top law enforcement officials that may want access to that data. Some of the technology industry's largest companies have applied pressure on President Obama over the issue of data encryption. A
SAN FRANCISCO - Americans don't trust government or corporations with their privacy, Pew Survey says. Technically Incorrect: Only 6 percent of adults say they are "very confident" that government agencies will keep their records secure. We cheerily give away our personal information every day. Often, we don't even know where it ends up or who
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LANSING - By 2017, the number of smartphone users in the United States is expected to surpass 200 million, nearly 65 percent of the population. Negotiating security in the face of an ever growing implementation of mobile devices presents serious challenges for organizations. Risks include the growth of Bring Your Own Device (coupled with a