After months of people yelling at them to increase security, Twitter finally began to roll out two-step verification for its accounts on Wednesday. To ensure that your account is protected, you should enable two-step verification immediately. It only takes about two minutes, and all you need is a cell phone. What is ...
Report: Power Company Faces 10,000 Cyberattacks Per Month
on 5.22.13
A Congressional survey of utility companies has revealed that the country's electric grid faces constant assault from hackers, with one power company reporting a whopping 10,000 attempted cyberattacks per month. US Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) sent 15 questions to more than 150 utilities and received ...
Twitter (Finally!) Rolls Out Two-Step Verification
on 5.22.13
Twitter has announced that it is finally rolling out two-step authentication for accounts, a much-needed security feature that comes after several months of high-profile Twitter account hacks. This feature can be enabled in the Twitter settings menu for any account that has both a confirmed email address and a verified ...
Skype Messages Aren’t Secure: Microsoft Scans Message Contents
on 5.21.13
If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed. And this can only happen if Microsoft can convert the messages ...
What We Can Learn From the AP Twitter White House Bombings
on 5.15.13
Just after noon on April 23, the Associated Press put out a tweet: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barak Obama is injured,” causing the Dow to plummet 150 points and traders to panic. AP quickly notified its following that their Twitter feed had been hacked. Taking claim was the Syrian Electronic Army, ...
Apple Overwhelmed by Police Demands to Decrypt iPhones, Creates Waiting List
on 5.12.13
Apple receives so many police demands to decrypt seized iPhones that it has created a "waiting list" to handle the deluge of requests, CNET has learned. Court documents show that federal agents were so stymied by the encrypted iPhone 4S of a Kentucky man accused of distributing crack cocaine that they turned to Apple for ...
Global Network of Hackers Steal $45 Million From ATMs
on 5.10.13
The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store. ...
DOJ: We Don’t Need Warrants for Email, Facebook Chats
on 5.8.13
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don't need a search warrant to review Americans' e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal. Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over ...
Syrian Internet Back After 19-Hour Blackout
on 5.8.13
The internet in Syria appears to have returned after a nationwide blackout knocked the country offline for more than 19 hours. Monitoring company Renesys noted signs of activity at around 14:30 GMT (17:30 local time) on Wednesday. Local state-run media had reported earlier that a "fault in optical fibre cables" was to ...
BitTorrent Goes Legit with New ‘Gated’ File Format
on 5.7.13
Kazaa. LimeWire. Napster. There are hardly any widely used filesharing sites that didn't try to "go legit" at some point after being dinged for facilitating piracy. It doesn’t usually work. Napster, for example, no longer exists; it was nearly bought by a porn company before it was acquired by Roxio and then sold to Best ...
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