Whether you looked up someone you wanted to meet, perused the pages of an old friend or foe from high school, or spied on the kids, everyone has likely Facebook-stalked at one time or another. And Facebook protects us while doing so, allowing us to stalk in anonymity. I’ll bet it’s a feature you may not have thought about but would really miss if it went away. Here's why it never will. READ»
British firm Gamma International was found hawking spyware to foreign intelligence services that installed onto users' computers via an iTunes security hole. The breach has been fixed, but documents indicate that the exploit was used to snoop on the email, Skype, and social media activities of users worldwide.READ»
The tech arm of the U.S. Department of Defense believes that even the most secure password is insecure--and that the future of account security will be biometric analysis of your typing style.READ»
Major security flaws in Skype, newly verified by an international academic research team, leave users vulnerable to stalkers, blackmailers, and other hackers. How long until Skype, under new ownership at Microsoft, fixes this?READ»
Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam. The social network just hired Websense to help with that. Here's what they're up to...READ»
Germans have found a way to create super-secure virtual "work phones" on Android devices. This could become a new, competitive threat to the already beleaguered Research In Motion.READ»
An insider offers new details about the ironclad security around Apple prototypes: private jets, windowless rooms, amorphous storage cases padlocked to tables whose wood grain signatures are photographed--and much more. READ»
A tiny, simple vulnerability in some core website infrastructure could allow a hacker to bring down thousands upon thousands of websites, swiftly and efficiently. The Net could basically be killed.READ»
Your next home may be more rammed with servos, sensors, and wireless than the average android. Bonus: As well as being more sci-fi, it will save you energy and money. The home automation field is about to explode.READ»
Rebellious groups Anonymous and LulzSec have formed a hacktivist Voltron to strike back against international police efforts to arrest their members; they've hacked the police. It's a war, now. And we've developed a war-room style video of LulzSec's history.READ»
Facial recognition software has advanced to the point it can cause serious security implications ... and open up a whole new world of powerful tech and clever innovation.READ»
A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry?READ»
