Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…
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The former San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords for one of the city’s networks was denied a new trial on Friday and is expected to be sentenced Aug. 6, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office said.
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Pitching to 200 financial analysts Thursday, Microsoft grabbed the mike and said the company gets consumers and is ready to compete mightily against Apple’s red-hot iPad.
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A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they’re at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.
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Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…
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Black Hat, the largest and most visible hacker conference, is winding down in Las Vegas. It always brings a series of shocks and this year didn’t disappoint. What did we learn this year?
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Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize control of PCs.…
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Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, August 2.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said military officials are launching a review of IT security procedures following the leaking of tens of thousands of classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan.
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As many as four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chinese-owned server, a mobile security firm said today.
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