Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, today contacted users and announced on its blog that a few of its users' accounts had been accessed via usernames and passwords stolen from other sites. In addition to helping the owners of the breached accounts secure their data, Dropbox has introduced...
You've heard a bit about it over the last few months, but if you watch or read any sort of news outlet, you'll hear a lot more about it in the future. It's the Apple versus Samsung patent battle, wherein Apple claims Samsung stole its intellectual property, mainly the designs of the iPhone and...
Breaking news is that 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have been hacked! You can read more about it here http://mashable.com/2012/06/06/6-5-million-linkedin-passwords/ and here: http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-hacked-2012-6 On its own home page, LinkedIn is urging users to change...
With last week's high-profile announcement that a new form of spyware called "Flame" is almost certainly a state-developed program, the topics of cyber warfare and state-sponsored snooping have captured attention. At least, they have captured the attention of Google, which today announced that...
Yesterday the White House hosted a meeting of government officials and corporate honchos to discuss a very serious problem. World peace? The economy? No, they met to discuss botnets. What is a botnet? Here's how the Industry Botnet Group, a voluntary group of companies, trade associations and...
