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US Toughens Stance on Chinese Cyberspying With 5 Criminal Indictments

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday kicked up a notch the Obama administration's efforts to curb China's economic espionage activity against American businesses. A grand jury indicted five members of the Chinese army on DoJ allegations they conspired to hack into the networks of U.S. companies to ...

Hackers Raid Blizzard, Make Off With Answers to Secret Questions

Hackers have hit Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming network, stealing users' email addresses, the answers to their personal security questions, and information relating to mobile and dial-in authenticators. The intruders hit the company's North American servers, which support players in North Ameri...

Motorola Bests Apple in German Patent Fight

A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, has ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in one of several patent infringement lawsuits the company has brought against Apple in the country. This relates to European Patent 1010336, which covers a technology that's essential to wireless communications. The cou...

Database Engine Flaw Makes Word Attachments Dangerous

Don't open that Word file attached to your e-mail; it might contain malware. And don't click on that e-mail or Web site links from strangers. Heck, don't even open Word e-mail attachments from trusted sources unless you're expecting them. Attackers are embedding malware in Word documents that causes...

Nokia Asks Twango to Dance

Mobile phone powerhouse Nokia has acquired the small, privately held media sharing company Twango -- a 10-person outfit that currently works out of a cofounder's basement in Redmond, Wash. Despite the company's small size and basement digs, Nokia clearly sees potential in Twango's solutions and visi...

Net’s Malware Infection: Growing by 5,000 Sites per Day

With e-mail's value as a malware delivery agent on the decline, writers of malicious software have boosted their efforts to infect Web sites with their nasty payloads. Thousands of malicious Web sites are created on a daily basis to steal information from unsuspecting visitors or plant insidious sof...

White Hat Warns of ‘Less Than Zero’ Threat

In the go-go eighties, Bret Easton Ellis's novel Less Than Zero was a cult classic, but today another "Less Than Zero" is attracting another kind of cult -- one bent on computer mischief or worse. "The security industry and trade press have directed a lot of attention toward the 'Zero Day' attack, p...

Samsung, Analysts Clash Over Memory Market

Conflicting messages from Samsung and industry analysts surround the spiraling memory chip market this week. Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has said prices of Flash and DRAM chips are likely to stabilize, while some analysts clearly disagree, saying there is little cha...

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