PASSWORDS Occasionally, you need to share a password with someone. Maybe it’s a shared office-wide password, your family’s Amazon login, or maybe you just want to share a Netflix account with your roommate. Rather than sharing it over email, you can more seamlessly and securely share passwords in just a few clicks with LastPass—and even […]
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Just 14 percent are confident they have a complete picture of their security and risk state By Antony Savvas, Computerworld UKMay 10, 2012 09:00 AM ET IT security professionals in Europe have “significant gaps” in their enterprise risk strategies, according to research from HP. The most mortifying moments in IT security history HP questioned 500
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National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-129AMicrosoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: May 08, 2012 Last revised: — Source: US-CERTSystems Affected * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft .NET Framework * Microsoft Office * Microsoft SilverlightOverview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates to address these vulnerabilities.Description The Microsoft
London fought tooth and nail for the 2012 Summer Olympics. How bad did it want them? Bad enough, apparently, for the city to hack its own traffic lights to ensure the IOC evaluation committee didn’t get stuck in London gridlock back in 2005: Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s
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RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is intended to be as secure, if not more so, than the OS running on RIM’s current crop of BlackBerry devices. Mobile security could become a major selling point for the new platform, for enterprises, carriers and end users alike. By John Cox Network World — RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating
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f the DNSChanger rootkit has infected your PC, you’ll lose access to the Internet when the FBI shuts down DNSChanger’s surrogate DNS servers. Here’s how to determine whether you’re infected, and what to do if you are. By Alex Wawro, PCWorld In July the Internet Systems Consortium will permanently shut down DNS servers deployed to serve as
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Twitter says it is trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up on an online file sharing website. Information posted on Pastebin.com appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, according to a message “tweeted” by the San Francisco firm. “We’re looking into the situation and have
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from the give-them-to-us-instead dept The United States, over time, became a global superpower with its hard work and know-how leading to innovations in new manufacturing, health care and information technologies. Now China is trying to use cyber espionage and theft to take a short cut to achieving superpower status. It began with China stealing hard-copy business plans and
Experts note there are many ways to disrupt it, be it on aircraft or cell phones By Jessie Emspak The South Korean government has reported that electronic jamming signals from North Korea were affecting communications and GPS signals for passenger aircraft. So far, there has not been a serious threat to safety because the pilots
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Christopher White April was not a good month for Apple as Flashback infected over half a million OS X machines followed by a new Mac-specific Java vulnerability called SabPub a little later. Kaspersky Labs even stirred up user emotions after commenting that Apple’s security is “10 years behind Microsoft.” Unfortunately for Apple, the hits keep on coming in May as security
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