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FCC to Public: Is Your Cellphone Carrier Adequately Protecting Your Information?

Ina Fried in Mobile May 25, 2012 at 1:11 pm PT

Now 50 Million Daily Users Strong, OpenDNS Wants to Be “the Akamai for Security”

Liz Gannes in Enterprise May 25, 2012 at 8:22 am PT

Seven Questions About Security for Rapid7 CEO Mike Tuchen

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?

Story about hacking into videoconferencing hardware

GitHub Now Has a Windows Client

Liz Gannes in News on May 21 at 9:30 am PT

GitHub, the collaboration and version-control site for open source and corporate developers, today is launching a Windows client.

News Byte

Kickstarter Bug Exposed Unreleased Projects, but Mostly to The Wall Street Journal

Liz Gannes in Commerce on May 14 at 8:45 am PT

For the last three weeks, Kickstarter had a security hole that allowed viewing of unreleased project proposals — but no account or financial info — through its API. The Wall Street Journal, which discovered the problem, downloaded 77,000 projects and drafts from the site. But aside from that, Kickstarter said in a blog post, only 48 unlaunched projects were accessed while the bug was live, some of them by Kickstarter’s engineers working on its API.

Remember Carrier IQ? Well, It’s Still Around and Kicking.

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 8 at 1:47 pm PT

After weathering a brutal privacy storm last year, Carrier IQ aims to show that its products are both useful and privacy-friendly.

Boingo Adds VPN and Crowdsource Hotspot Data to Its Wi-Fi Software

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 10:00 pm PT

The Wi-Fi provider is expanding its software to connect automatically to more than 70,000 free hotspots, in addition to Boingo’s own network of paid locations.

Interview: AT&T’s Glenn Lurie on Being the New Sheriff in Town

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 3:45 pm PT

AT&T’s Glenn Lurie explains why Ma Bell thinks it belongs in the home security business.

AT&T Aims to Break Into the Home-Security Business

Ina Fried in News on May 6 at 9:01 pm PT

The company plans to start testing a service this summer that allows customers to hook up all manner of sensors to a base unit that connects wirelessly over AT&T’s cellular network.

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Novel Android Malware Spotted on Compromised Web Sites

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 2 at 3:37 pm PT

In addition to a new means of attack, Lookout warns, the new bug could be used to compromise phones and tablets as a way into corporate and government networks.

Stealthy Shape Security Lands $6 Million From Kleiner Perkins and Eric Schmidt

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.

News Byte

Facebook Working With Antivirus Vendors to Ward Off Spam, Malware

Lauren Goode in News on April 25 at 10:23 am PT

Facebook has partnered with a handful of antivirus software vendors to add their security services to its URL blacklist system, meant to protect users against spam and malware. Six-month antivirus software licenses from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec will also be available to Facebook’s 900 million users for free.

FCC to Public: Is Your Cellphone Carrier Adequately Protecting Your Information?

Now 50 Million Daily Users Strong, OpenDNS Wants to Be “the Akamai for Security”

Seven Questions About Security for Rapid7 CEO Mike Tuchen

GitHub Now Has a Windows Client

Kickstarter Bug Exposed Unreleased Projects, but Mostly to The Wall Street Journal

Remember Carrier IQ? Well, It’s Still Around and Kicking.

Boingo Adds VPN and Crowdsource Hotspot Data to Its Wi-Fi Software

Interview: AT&T’s Glenn Lurie on Being the New Sheriff in Town

AT&T Aims to Break Into the Home-Security Business

Novel Android Malware Spotted on Compromised Web Sites

Stealthy Shape Security Lands $6 Million From Kleiner Perkins and Eric Schmidt

Facebook Working With Antivirus Vendors to Ward Off Spam, Malware

PGP Creator Phil Zimmermann Has a New Venture Called Silent Circle

Deutsche Telekom Aims to Lookout for Mobile Users’ Security

Security Start-Up CrowdStrike Hires Former FBI Cyber Cop

Seven Questions for Steve Felice, Chief Commercial Officer of Dell

The Bodyguard: Paying for Internet Execs’ Security

Apple Fights Back Against Malware Attack

How to Find Out if Your Mac Is in the Infected 1 Percent

Cisco CEO Sees China’s Huawei as Toughest Rival

Card Processor: Hackers Stole Account Numbers

Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments

Government Security Gurus: All Our Networks Are Belong to Them

Dell to Acquire SonicWall for $1.2 Billion

Companies Let Workers Bring Their Own Devices, but at What Cost? (Video)

Please Just Kill Yourself Now.

Seven Questions for RSA Security Head Art Coviello

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