What you need to know about the Gmail password compromise
There's no need to panic about the nearly five million compromised Gmail passwords that appeared in a Russian Bitcoin security forum this week, according to Google. Fewer than 2% of the compromised...
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Researcher builds system to protect against malicious insiders
When an employee turns on his own company, the results -- damaged networks, data theft and even work stoppage -- could be devastating. It could rock the company even more than an outside attack...
View ArticleGoogle says bye bye, CAPTCHAs, well, mostly
Sick of typing those annoying, and barely readable, letters and numbers to prove to a website that you're not a robot or a spammer?You may be in luck.Google announced Wednesday that the company is...
View ArticleUpdate: Alleged Va. shooter uses social media to post video of killings
The man who allegedly shot and killed two journalists in Virginia while they were doing an on-air interview, posted video he took of the murders to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. All three social...
View ArticleISIS group threatens Facebook and Twitter CEOs
Frustrated by social networks' efforts to keep them at bay, the terrorist group ISIS has made direct threats against the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter.In a 25-minute video dubbed "Flames of the...
View ArticleFacebook engages Safety Check after Brussels attacks
Facebook activated its Safety Check service Tuesday for users living near Brussels after a series of terrorist attacks killed at least 34 people and wounded 200. Two explosions – one reportedly set...
View ArticleIn DARPA challenge, smart machines compete to fend off cyberattacks
The first all-machine hacking competition is taking place today in Las Vegas. Seven teams, each running a high-performance computer and autonomous systems, are going head-to-head to see which one can...
View ArticleTwitter suspends 360,000 accounts for terrorist ties
Twitter continues to fight to keep terrorist groups and sympathizers from using its service. The social network announced today that in the last six months it has suspended 235,000 accounts for...
View ArticleIT leaders say it's hard to keep the cloud safe
IT managers are finding it difficult to keep their applications and data safe in the cloud, and many are slowing cloud adoption because of it.That was one of the findings of an Intel cloud security...
View ArticlePrivacy activist wants to unveil lawmakers' browser histories
After Congress on Tuesday approved a resolution that would toss out significant online privacy protections, one Internet user decided to do something about it.Adam McElhaney, who calls himself a...
View ArticleAfter political Twitter bot revelation, are companies at risk?
With reports of Russia using social media and bots to push fake news to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, questions are arising over how these same tactics could be used against an...
View ArticleIndustrial robots are security weak link
Industrial robots used in factories and warehouses that are connected to the internet are not secure, leaving companies open to cyberattacks and costly damages.That's the word coming from a study...
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