Teenage hacker creates next: Most people think of bitcoin as a form of money, if they think of bitcoin at all. But 19-year-old hacker Vitalik Buterin sees it as something more — much more. He sees it as a new way of building just about any internet application. The bitcoin digital currency is driven by […]

Are Security Expectations Unrealistic? Target’s Data Breach In Perspective: Weeks after the recent Target data breach, where millions of credit card records were stolen by hackers, the lawsuits have started to roll in.Target Stores was accused of “Negligence”, and a disregard for how “highly offensive” such a data breach would be to customers. BBC news […]

Neiman Marcus hack reportedly went undetected for months: A security breach that yielded Neiman Marcus customers’ payment card information went undetected for nearly six months, according a report in the New York Times. The upscale department store revealed Friday that hackers may have stolen customers’ credit and debit card information during an intrusion it detected […]

Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP Updates Until July 2015: Microsoft today announced it will continue to provide updates to its security products (antimalware engine and signatures) for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015. Previously, the company said it would halt all updates on the same day as the end of support date for […]

Why the Security Stack Has Ten Layers, Not Seven: The next item to tackle is the overall security architecture – and this includes several things. But let me first state the disclaimer that of course it is imperative that the correct governance and policies are in place and that technology can’t replace those things. But, […]

Malware: More Hype Than Reality: Sure, malware exists, but is it really as bad as the news suggests? In any given year, there are approximately 100 shark attacks worldwide. Of those 100, only 16 of these attacks end in a fatality. Funny then, that we humans have such irrational fears about being attacked by a shark […]

Second Microsoft hack by Syrian Electronic Army: The hacker group reportedly took over the @MSFTnews and @XboxSupport Twitter accounts, as well as the firm’s TechNet blog over the weekend. The group subsequently retweeted an update from the @Official_SEA16 account, which accused Microsoft of monitoring users’ account and selling this data on to American intelligence agencies […]

Holiday Hackers Attacked At Least Three Other Major Retailers: If you thought you dodged a bullet during Target and Neiman Marcus’ holiday data breaches, you might want to sit down. According to a Reuters report published early this morning, at least three other well-known U.S. retailers were hacked, too. Unfortunately, we don’t know which retailers […]

Hackers hobble Telecom email service: Telecom’s email service, provided by global internet giant Yahoo, has been compromised by hackers for at least the fourth time in the last 12 months. And Telecom says it has no idea how bad the latest attack might be, or where it’s coming from. “At this point we don’t have […]

On the anniversary of the death of Aaron Swartz, Anonymous hacks MIT again: Anonymous defaced MIT’s SSL-enabled Cogeneration Project page on Friday night, displaying a page that called viewers to “Remember the day we fight back.” “The day we fight back” references a protest planned for February 11 in opposition to surveillance and remembering Internet […]