Google’s expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google’s blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites.
The DNS is a crucial part of the Internet. It converts the text addresses people can remember into the numeric Internet Protocol addresses [...]
For the third time in a matter of weeks, jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches have come under attack, this time by a worm that could set up botnets and steal banking information.
Security researchers, already on alert as a result of the two previous attacks on jailbroken iPhones, jumped on the worm right away.
“This is one [...]
Valuable information is increasingly stored remotely, but it’s difficult to keep it safe without compromising convenience and accessibility for users. Last week, Uniloc, a company based in Irvine, CA, launched a product called EdgeID that promises to strengthen remote authentication by using consumers’ devices as keys.
Companies selling cloud services, and businesses offering remote access to [...]
One of the most effective yet affordable anti-virus solutions for PC I’ve ever used – AVG, has recently announced the latest update to their software. AVG 9.0 gives you hassle-free protection from today’s most sophisticated threats online. If you’re already using a previous version of AVG ie 8.5, you’ll be happy to know that AVG [...]
ABUJA – Nigeria’s anti-corruption police is working with Microsoft to halt thousands of fraudulent emails in a crackdown on internet crime in Africa’s most populous country, an agency spokesman said.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday its new project “Eagle Claw,” expected to become fully operational within six months, is aimed at [...]
Imagine your laptop gets stolen. Wouldn’t it be great to remotely spy on the machine and get it back?
Clair Fleener, chief executive of IT outsourcer InertLogic, got that chance after a laptop belonging to a customer was stolen.
Fleener was instrumental in the investigation that led to the recovery of the laptop, monitoring the activities of [...]
Released Thursday by a congressional advisory panel, the study found cases suggesting that China’s elite hacker community has ties to the Beijing government, although there is little hard evidence.
The commission report details a cyber attack against a U.S. company several years ago that appeared to either originate in or come through China and was similar [...]
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is fixing a bug in Bing that allowed spammers to bypass spam filters and distribute malicious links.
Researchers at Webroot Software discovered a spam campaign earlier this week that used the search engine’s own redirection mechanism and a link-shrinking technique to send people to spam Web pages, according to a post [...]
The Wi-Fi Alliance is preparing a new specification designed to allow devices from cellphones to printers to connect to each other reliably, securely and wirelessly.
WiFi-enabled devices can currently connect peer-to-peer in what’s known as “ad hoc mode,” but configuration issues and security concerns have limited the usefulness of the capability.
The new specification, called “Wi-Fi Direct,” [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has discovered another bogus patent, and it’s taking the newly found evidence to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to have the patent invalidated.
On Wednesday, the EFF, a civil liberties organization that works to protect rights in the digital world, filed a re-examination request to the U.S. Patent [...]
