Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 21 at 3:15 pm PT
It turns out there’s a big business in asking the most basic questions about IT security: What do I have? And how vulnerable is it?
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 26 at 5:04 am PT
A security start-up aims to change the economics of launching hacking attacks.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 18 at 12:30 pm PT
A new security start-up led by two former McAfee executives has tapped Shawn Henry, once the FBI’s top cyber cop, to run its service division.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 10 at 6:02 pm PT
Apple is building software to detect and remove the Flashback malware that has turned 600,000-odd Macs into a trouble-making botnet.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 6 at 1:57 pm PT
Chatter about a new Trojan affecting Macs fails to acknowledge where the real vulnerability lies: With Oracle’s Java and not Apple’s OS X itself.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 6 at 7:07 am PT
While the Stuxnet worm was seen as difficult to make, inherent weaknesses found in widely used industrial control computers make attacks like that surprisingly easy to carry out, new research says.
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Robin Sidel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 2 at 4:30 am PT
Global Payments Inc., the credit-card processor that reported a significant security breach Friday, said that hackers stole account numbers and other key information from up to 1.5 million accounts in North America.
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Devlin Barrett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 27 at 6:40 pm PT
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation’s efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks: “We’re not winning,” he said.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 23 at 4:45 am PT
And by “them,” they mean the bad guys: Spies, terrorists and troublemakers.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 6 at 6:21 am PT
Five people on two continents are charged as being members of the LulzSec hacking troupe that caused so much mayhem last summer. They are alleged to have been turned in by one of their own.
