Articles about Security – Page 12 of 15

Syrian Electronic Army hits Microsoft…again

It’s a bad month to be one of Microsoft’s social media properties. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/422093475224371201 The Syrian Electronic Army managed to take… Read More

Target security breach encompasses 70 million

Target revealed today that the massive security breach that hit 40 million customers’ credit and debit cards also encompasses the… Read More

Steam, Origin and others taken down in latest attacks against gaming services

Valve’s Steam platform, Activision Blizzard’s Battle.net and EA’s Origin storefront were all brought down last night by Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks… Read More

New Year’s Tech Resolution #4: Solve your password problem

If you’re anything like me, there are entire key pieces of your life that revolve around the Internet. With all… Read More

Security firm RSA got $10M from the NSA to push bad crypto

Security firm RSA took $10 million from the NSA to make a flawed cipher the default in one of its… Read More

New Microsoft security tool helps users detect attempted account hacking

Microsoft announced today that it’s rolling out new features to help protect users from unwanted intrusions into their accounts, and… Read More

Here’s what Microsoft plans to do about government surveillance

Microsoft is battening down the hatches when it comes to protecting its customers against government surveillance. In a blog post… Read More

Seattle hospital discloses malware attack that exposes 90,000 patient records

Personal information of about 90,000 patients of Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center was exposed after a malware… Read More

Yahoo to encrypt internal server traffic by early next year, trying to thwart NSA

In a post to Yahoo’s official blog, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company plans to have all of its… Read More

It’s time to kill the password — before it kills us

It’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one… Read More

Microsoft’s Internet cops get high-tech, high-security HQ

Not every tech company has its own evidence room and forensics lab. And not every police station has a giant… Read More

Microsoft will patch zero-day IE vulnerability Tuesday

As a part of tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will be patching a zero-day vulnerability that the internet’s nefarious elements have… Read More

Adobe breach hit more than 150 million usernames and passwords

It seems like we may be closing in on the total size of Adobe’s password security breach, and it’s big.… Read More

Tacoma’s IID looks to help curb cyberattacks, secures $8M from Bessemer in first-ever financing

IID has been helping organizations mitigate cyberattacks for the past 17 years, building a 65-person company in Tacoma. Now, the… Read More

Ten Years of Patch Tuesdays: Why It’s Time to Move On

Earlier this month, Microsoft marked the tenth anniversary of its regular “Patch Tuesday” release of security updates. There wasn’t a… Read More

Report: Adobe breach is even bigger than originally thought

In the event you’re an Adobe user and you haven’t changed all the passwords that share a password with your… Read More

Apple says it’s not snooping on iMessages, dismisses ‘theoretical vulnerabilities’

Security research firm QuarksLab recently dropped a bombshell on iOS users with a presentation at the Hack in the Box… Read More

Microsoft forks over $100,000 bounty to hacker for exposing Windows security flaw

Here’s one way to make a quick $100,000: Find security flaws in Microsoft products. That’s how much James Forshaw, a security… Read More

How to protect yourself from the latest iPhone 5S attack

Looks like it’s time for new security disclosures about flaws with Apple’s new iPhone. Researchers at SR Labs, a German… Read More

Adobe hack steals 2.9M accounts, plus source code

If you have an Adobe account, you may want to make sure it doesn’t share any passwords with something important.… Read More

Yahoo now offering bug bounty of up to $15,000 following harsh criticisms for $12.50 gift

There’s nothing like a whole lot of bad press to get things moving. Yahoo touched off a firestorm on Tuesday… Read More

Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Yahoo’s site, offered $12.50 per bug

Yahoo may be in the midst of a reinvention, but according to one security company, their compensation for turning in… Read More

Microsoft announces general availability of multi-factor authentication for Azure

Software developers, want to make sure your Windows Azure logins are extra double secure? Well, now you can. Microsoft is… Read More

More transparency: Microsoft not satisfied with government’s new security request plan

Back when the NSA’s snooping practices were revealed in June, Microsoft joined fellow tech giants Google and Facebook in asking the U.S. government for… Read More

Geek on the Street: What do you think of the government’s snooping programs?

What does our general public really think of recently exposed government surveillance programs? Does it invade privacy? Does it protect… Read More

Apple slowly bringing developer resources back online following security breach

Following a security breach last week that closed down its developer website, Apple is slowly returning functionality to its tools… Read More

Microsoft helping Twitter crack down on child pornography with PhotoDNA technology

Microsoft helped Facebook fight against child pornography, and now the Redmond software giant is lending a hand to Twitter, too. The… Read More

We’re with Windows, and we’re here to help: The anatomy of a scam

On its face, it was totally unbelievable. After all, when was the last time you recall any tech support pro-actively… Read More

Report: Microsoft allowed NSA to bypass encryption for access to Outlook emails, Skype conversations

Throughout the year, Microsoft has lambasted Google and accused them of shady privacy policies via its “Scroogled” campaign. But now, new… Read More

Report: Flaw in Android’s security model leaves 99% of devices vulnerable to attack

UPDATE: According to a report by IDG News Service, Google has patched the Google Play store so that trojans attempting… Read More