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2012 Ig Nobel Prizes honor real, but offbeat research
Groundbreaking research into monkey butts, green hair, diamonds and dead fish was honored this year. Read More


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The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them
When it comes to security, most mobile devices are a target waiting to be attacked. That's pretty much the conclusion of a report to Congress on the status of the security of mobile devices this week by watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office. Read More

What to learn from the $10 million Subway POS hack
Two Romanian hackers will serve time for targeting Subway in a $10 million point-of-sale conspiracy involving 150 restaurants in 2011. Read More

RSA looks to have SIEM do advanced real-time threat analysis, forensics
RSA is readying a product it calls Security Analytics whose purpose is basically to transform the company's traditional security information and event management (SIEM) product, EnVision, into a hunter of stealthy attackers, and a forensics tool to analyze attacks. Read More

Security startup isolates untrusted content in virtual machines
Security-software startup Bromium is shipping its first product, a virtualization client that runs any untrusted content inside its very own virtual machine -- a microVM -- protecting the underlying operating system and whatever content is stored on the physical machine from theft and malware infection. Read More


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Vendors cautiously optimistic over Google buying VirusTotal
Google expected to improve quality and power of the small company's tools, but sharing of virus samples across vendors a concern Read More

Sophos admits bad update slamming its anti-virus software customers
Security firm Sophos today apologized for wreaking havoc in its customers' networks after a faulty update to its anti-virus software yesterday caused false positives for certain malware to occur on Windows-based computers. Read More

Mobile malware shifting to SMS fraud
Apps secretly bill victims for premium text services Read More

Senator takes cybersecurity law fight to CEOs
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) hopes cybersecurity legislation can be revived in Congress by avoiding "the filter of beltway lobbyists," and connecting directly with top business leaders. But critic say he could have done so long ago. Read More


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Anonymous spokesman's YouTube meltdown led to arrest
If anybody was surprised at the arrest in Dallas last week of Barrett Brown, self-described sometime spokesman for the hacktivist group Anonymous, it should not have been Brown himself. Read More

Cybercriminals shift focus to bank employees
The evolution of cybercrime continues: The preferred target in the financial industry is moving from the bank customer to the employee. Read More

Indonesia advances world's most ambitious biometric-based national identity card project
Tampa -- You might not guess that Indonesia, a large country that's basically an archipelago of over 70,000 islands that has infrastructure issues in electricity and limited bandwidth, is the nation rolling out the world's most ambitious biometrics-based national identity card project for its citizens. But it is. Read More

5 win government grants to help 'get rid of passwords'
A federal initiative called the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" has been encouraging the high-tech industry to work with government to find alternatives to simple passwords in order to foster more secure online transactions. The NSTIC program has been promising to fund $10 million in government grants for pilot projects to showcase innovative approaches, and today the winners were finally announced. Read More

 
 
 

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