China has a new censorship tool that is causing alarm. It's known as the "Great Cannon." The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab identified the tool in a report released last week. The Great Cannon was first used in March, to launch a large-scale DDoS attack on GitHub and GreatFire.org, Citizen Lab ...
A week-old squabble between two Dutch groups -- the spamfighting Spamhaus Project and Web hosting service Cyberbunker -- has resulted in what has been called the largest distributed denial of service attack in Web history. The cyberfight reportedly has spilled over onto the global Internet and slowe...
An analysis of more than 400,000 apps in the Google Play store has revealed that more than 100,000 of them pose a potential security risk to their users. The analysis of the Android apps released last week by cyber security vendor Bit9 examined the security permissions requested by the programs. It ...
What would happen if you paid taxes or protection money but didn't get protected because your protectors themselves were getting clobbered? Worse still, what if they didn't tell you they had been compromised and that you might not be safe? That situation played out recently after yet another company...
Malware that appears to be similar to the highly toxic Stuxnet worm was made public Tuesday by security firm Symantec. Duqu, named for the "~DQ" file names it creates, appears to work as a remote access data-collecting program that uses some of the same infecting techniques as Stuxnet, the malware d...
The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers. Sure, it's easy to search the Web for the best price on that laptop or video gami...
The Stuxnet worm is one of the most sophisticated bits of digital malware security researchers have come across in a long time. Now, those researchers want to know where it came from. Was Stuxnet the product of a den of hackers working on their own accord, or did a national government somewhere in t...
Microsoft Windows doesn't have a good way to handle digital certificates that have been tampered with, Roel Schouwenberg, senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said Tuesday at the company's North American Virus Analyst Summit in San Francisco. One problem is that it doesn't clearly indicate ...
Yet more Web security flaws have emerged to threaten Internet users, who are already bedeviled by the likes of drive-by attacks, SQL injections and spam. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers reportedly demonstrated serious flaws in the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protoc...
Back in January, friends of Seattle, Wash., resident Bryan Rutberg were stunned when they read e-mails from his Facebook account accompanied by his photo. In the messages, Bryan appeared to claim he was in big trouble and that he needed their help. At least one friend wired him money. However, Rutbe...
Facebook is adding support for OpenID to its Web site, allowing users access to the social media sign-on platform. Facebook is the standard's largest relaying party -- that is, the largest Web site accepting log-ins from OpenID. The move is beneficial to Facebook because a great many of its users ar...
Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure chip on it? When you need to use the card, press on its switch and the PKI chip will run a...
The face of online security will change drastically, Jim Bidzos, founder and chairman of trusted certificates vendor VeriSign, said in a keynote speech on Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. "In the '70s in enterprises, there were mainly mainframes. The Internet, due to good w...
Doomsayers may be fond of predicting the imminent collapse of the Internet under the weight of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications, but at least one infrastructure provider is on track to increase its capacity tenfold by 2010. VeriSign, which manages the critical infrastructure that han...
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Apple Goes All-In on a Privacy-Based AI Experience
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Compelling New Headphones From Heavys and Sonos
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Intel Announces New Tech To Battle in AI Market
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Acer Chromebook Plus 516 GE Redefines Gaming Style, Computing Performance
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Bring Your Own AI to Work Creates a Field Day for Cyberattackers
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Brute Force Password Cracking Takes Longer, But Celebration May Be Premature
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Post-Open Licensing Could Offer Software Devs Funding Alternatives
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AI-Powered Robot Aims To Slash Cost of E-Commerce Deliveries
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More Linux Malware Means More Linux Monitoring
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Next-Generation Wi-Fi 7 Standard Expected To Be Finalized in Early 2024
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Cat-Phishing, Living-Off-The-Land, Fake Invoices Top Q1 Cyberthreats: Report
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The Copilot+ PCs Arrive: My Initial Impressions
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SevaCare Blood Pressure Monitor Offers Affordable Home Health Assurance
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For Infineon, AI Is the Key to IoT’s Potential
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat: Step-by-Step Guide
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AI, IoT, Quantum Security Among Top 10 Emerging Technologies: Forrester
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Our Entire Approach to AI Is Flawed
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Mobile Security Firms Fortify Defenses as App Attacks Accelerate
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Balance, Not Mandates, Needed To Keep Kids Safe Online: Report
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Windows 10 End of Life Could Flood Landfills With E-Waste
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Mozilla Waves Red Flag Over Data Hungry Dating Apps
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Beatbot AquaSense Pro: Just in Time for Summer, the Ultimate Robot Pool Cleaner
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AI-Powered Software Offers Breakthrough for Treating Dyslexia
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AI-Enhanced Searches May Pose Threat to Creators, Publishers
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Disorganization, Not Cost, Fuels the IT E-Waste Crisis
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Pundit Predicts Apple AI Will Be Bound to iPhone, Analysts React
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Tech Coalition Launches Initiative To Crackdown on Nomadic Child Predators
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Amazon’s Competitor to Musk’s Starlink Takes Critical Step Toward Deployment
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How To Leverage Gen AI Without Losing the Corporate Shirt
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Apple Muscles Up iPad Pro With M4 Silicon and Tandem OLED Display
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How Apple Outperformed Google and Microsoft in AI Rollout
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The Case Against Noncompete Agreements
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Apple Vision Pro Impressions: One Week Later
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