Be careful, Harry Potter fans: Emma Watson has supplanted Heidi Klum as McAfee’s 2012 most dangerous celebrity to search for online. It will take more than a magic wand to avoid threats: Watson searches yield a nearly a one-in-eight chance of landing o…
In search of gold-selling, 11,000 Guild Wars 2 accounts already hacked
Just as security experts feared, the highly anticipated multiplayer video game known as Guild Wars 2 has found itself the target of hackers, who have already compromised 11,000 accounts in the name of gold-selling.
Google to acquire VirusTotal for email security
Joining the fight for online security, internet behemoth Google has acquired tiny security firm VirusTotal.
Pirate Bay co-founder extradited to Sweden
Hollywood studios rejoice: Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been finally extradited to Sweden to begin a one-year jail sentence for copyright infringement, stemming from media piracy charges. He was also charged upon landing with a new…
Are Social Networks Putting You At Risk?
This is a guest post by Phoenix TS.Consumers share a significant amount of personal information on various social networking sites and as a result are putting themselves at greater risk for identity fraud. So how can you protect yourself? Follow these …
GoDaddy had problems yesterday – but we don’t yet know what they were
“#tangodown http://www.godaddy.com/ by @AnonymousOwn3r” tweeted the hacker known as Anonymous Own3r yesterday. And sure enough, the company that describes itself as a “Worldwide hosting provider and the Web’s largest domain registrar” was having probl…
Al-Jazeera SMS platform hacked by Syrian hacktivists
The war of disinformation surrounding the Syrian unrest and other political hot potatoes is continuing, with the Al-Jazeera news service falling victim in the latest attack.
Active authentication seeks to augment passwords
Passwords and access tokens, we are frequently told, are not enough. They can be broken, stolen or bypassed. DARPA is seeking a new approach – rather than authentication solely on access, it is looking for ways to maintain continuous biometric user aut…
‘Botnet Bandit’ gets 2+ years in prison
The Botnet Bandit, as he’s known, has been brought to justice after infecting thousands of computers and using them for profit. Joshua Schichtel has been sentenced in federal court in the District of Columbia to 30 months in prison and three years of s…
Hackers hold Mitt Romney’s tax returns for ransom
An unidentified hacking group claims to have hacked PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Franklin, Tenn., office to obtain access to Mitt Romney’s tax returns. It’s now attempting to hold the information for ransom, asking for $1 million, deliverable via Bitcoin, …