Windows still owns the mainstream business PC market, but Apple’s decent toehold on the enterprise market — $25 billion annually, according to CEO Tim Cook — will only grow. You almost certainly already have Macs in your business, connecting to...
When an organization gets hacked, ideally they’ll realize it promptly and warn their users right away. Take crowdfunding site Patreon, which was hacked last Monday and has already informed the world about the problem. Scottrade, an investment brokerage company, is different,...
A data breach at credit bureau Experian may have exposed data from T-Mobile USA on about 15 million U.S. consumers. The data includes names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers or other forms of identification like drivers’ license numbers,...
Cyber criminals using the Dyreza computer trojan appear to be shifting gears from online banking and moving into the industrial supply chain. New versions of Dyreza are configured to steal credentials for order fulfillment, warehousing, inventory management, e-commerce and other...
Windows users who rely on TrueCrypt to encrypt their hard drives have a security problem: a researcher has discovered two serious flaws in the program. TrueCrypt may have been abandoned by its original developers, but it remains one of the...
Rogue online advertisements that infect computers with malware have become a common occurrence on the Internet. But now, it appears, hackers have also figured out how to launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks through ad networks. The DDoS mitigation team...
Almost 18 million people were victims of identity theft in the United States last year, with the majority of crimes targeting credit cards and bank accounts, the Department of Justice said Sunday. The figure represents 7 percent of the U.S....
Cookies, the files that websites create in browsers to remember logged-in users and track other information about them, could be abused by attackers to extract sensitive information from encrypted HTTPS connections. The issue stems from the fact that the HTTP...
North America has finally run out of new addresses based on IPv4, the numbering system that got the Internet where it is today but which is running out of space for the coming era of networking. The American Registry for...
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