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A well-known iOS hacker who uses the handle "pod2g" revealed a flaw in Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, that he says can be exploited to alter the "reply to" information in SMS messages Such a tactic could be used by cybermiscreants to pry sensitive information from the recipient of a message or divert them to a malicious website....
It's no secret that Sony Computer Entertainment sees mobile gaming as a large contributor to its bottom line in the future. That vision became clearer Tuesday when Sony revealed more details about its PlayStation Mobile service The skeleton of the program was revealed earlier this summer at the E3 conference in Los Angeles, but at Gamescom in Colog...
The attack last week on journalist Mat Honan's iCloud account has the potential to strip the silver lining from the cybernimbus Honan had his digital life destroyed when hackers, in a convoluted effort to hijack his Twitter account, ended up trashing everything connected to his Apple iCloud account....
As digital horror stories go, Mat Honan's is a doozy The Wired reporter had his iCloud account hacked and had his digital life wiped from cyberspace....
Some folks' answer to wallet security is chaining it to their belts. Google's is to chain it to the cloud The Search Giant added some security features to its Google Wallet product last week intended to make it safer for consumers to use. For example, credit card information no longer resides in the Google Wallet mobile app. Its new home is in the ...
Siemens, which made the industrial controllers targeted by the Stuxnet cyberweapon, announced last week that it was releasing some patches aimed at foiling attacks on its hardware similar to those mounted by the now-famous worm Previous versions of the controllers used in SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems allowed DLL (Dynamic...
Facebook on Thursday released its first quarterly earnings report since its monster IPO in May During the period, Facebook reported revenues of US$1.18 billion but couldn't turn a profit, losing $157 million, or eight cents a share....
Microsoft security researcher Terry Zink pulled the pin on a virtual grenade when he aired his belief that he'd discovered a botnet manned by Android zombies After examining some spam, Zink found suggestions that the junk mail was being generated from Android smartphones with access to Yahoo mail accounts....
A technical error that affected 28 million Windows users in Europe could cost Microsoft billions in penalties The glitch, which disabled the display of a browser choice screen in Windows, violates an agreement between Microsoft and European Union (EU) regulators....
Despite dire warnings, the Internet didn't break last week when the FBI pulled the plug on the server controlling the DNSChanger botnet An estimated 300,000 computers are still infected by the malware that ties them to the botnet, which was designed for large-scale click fraud. Those machines' connections to the Internet depended on a server the FB...
To listen to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talk, you'd think he was the prime minister of a besieged nation, rather than the captain of one of the largest software companies in the world In an interview Tuesday with CRN, a website for VARs and technology integrators, the flamboyant head of Microsoft pledged to compete with arch rival Apple on every fro...
Those who follow the exploits of Stuxnet will remember June 24, 2012, as Big Sleep day for the infamous malware. On that day, it stopped replicating "It's more like neutered, rather than dead," Eric Byres, CTO and vice president for engineering at Tofino Security Products, told TechNewsWorld. "The June 24 date stops it from replicating, but if it h...
Claims by a team of international cyrptographic researchers that they've "cracked" the RSA encryption used on a number of smartcards and secure tokens has set off a tempest in security circles The scientists from France, Italy, Norway and the United States have found a method for compromising the code in as little as 13 minutes. They plan to divulg...
Zynga made a number of announcements at its Unleashed event in San Francisco Tuesday, most of them aimed at the same goal: making its services "stickier" to its players "Social games have become a crowded marketplace," Scott Steinberg , digital game consultant and principal in TechSavvyGlobal.com, told TechNewsWorld. "It's hard to sustain interest ...
There's evidence that Google's consumer privacy policy is being extended to government contracts for its software services, according to SafeGov.org. Citing contracts in Texas, Illinois and California, the group contends that Google's privacy policy is the "minimum standard" for handling customer data under the contracts....
After several missed deadlines, Asus has finally introduced a combination smartphone, tablet and notebook computer aimed at consumers who are tired of toting around disparate devices ...
The deluge of spam dropped on members of LinkedIn last week perhaps could have been expected after a data breach at the site exposed 6.5 million of their passwords. Those messages, though, are more likely to harm members unaffected by the breach than those victimized by it That's because members who had their passwords compromised also had them wip...
Fanned by a security community hungry for the next Stuxnet, a new so-called superworm called "Flame" made headlines last week Comparisons to the now infamous worm that attacked Iran's nuclear development program quickly appeared. Flame may have been created by a nation state. It apparently targets countries in the Middle East. It gathers informatio...
"Domestic Communications Assistance Center" is the kind of name you'd give to a couples counseling collective. At the FBI, though, it's the name that's been given to an agency designed to be at the cutting edge of digital snooping The mission of the DCAC, located at the FBI facility in Quantico, Va., includes intercepting and decoding Skype convers...
Motorola Mobility's financial performance has been less than stellar in the last three years, so its acquisition by Google for US$12.5 billion could be a boon for the company "Motorola has been running at an operating loss for quite a few quarters," observed Ramon T. Llamas, who analyzes mobile devices technology and trends for IDC. "Now it has acc...
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