Amid the world's worst Ebola outbreak a Las Vegas company hopes to cash in by offering the domain name Ebola.com for sale for $150,000, a partner with the firm said on Tuesday. Chris Hood, a junior partner with Blue String Ventures Inc., the firm selling ...
Suspected Russian hackers exploit Windows vulnerability to attack targets such as NATO, Ukraine
Hackers, probably Russian, have exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber-intelligence firm iSight Partners. ISight said it did not know what ...
New 'Poodle' Internet threat is found, but it is not as menacing as Heartbleed or Shellshock
Three Google researchers have uncovered a security bug in widely used Internet encryption technology that they say could allow hackers to take over accounts for email, banking and other services in what they have dubbed a "Poodle" attack. The discovery of Poodle, whose name stands ...
After court loss, Google rethinks search results linking man to criminal group
Google says it may comply with a Japanese court order and remove some online search results found to harm a man's reputation by linking him to organized crime.
In what is likely a first for online privacy in Japan, a Tokyo court orders Google to delete search results that imply a man was involved in a past crime.
Bitcoin payments by pedophiles frustrate child porn battle
In a two-story building in the English university town of Cambridge, researchers at the U.K.'s Internet Watch Foundation pore over online images of sexually abused children in an effort to remove them from the Web. It is dispiriting work, and this year it grew ...
New 'Bash' software bug tipped as bigger threat than 'Heartbleed'
A newly discovered security bug in a widely used piece of Linux software, known as "Bash," could pose a bigger threat to computer users than the "Heartbleed" bug that surfaced in April, cyberexperts warned on Wednesday. Bash is the software used to control the command ...
FCC chief says utility-style Internet rules are 'on the table'
U.S. officials are considering utility-style rules for Internet traffic, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Wednesday. The rules are "very much on the table," Wheeler told the U.S. House Committee on Small Business. Wheeler said the agency is considering rules under Title II, which ...
Internet fraud takes a turn for the strange
Two widely reported Web stories this year have been related to online-services fraud. One concerns online banking, the other account-hacking on a smartphone messenger service. If you use the online services of Japanese banks, you may have noticed that their websites have become decorated with ...
Cybercrime queries hit record high as police confirm new online banking threat
Police agencies received a record number of queries related to cybercrimes in the January-June period, but arrested fewer online criminals. They also confirmed for the first time the existence of a new form of online banking threat known as the man-in-the-browser attack. During the six-month ...
Leak clouds Apple's shiny image
Apple Inc. has often displayed uncanny timing with its well-orchestrated end-of-year iPhone releases. But the leak of racy celebrity photos in the past few days put the company in the unusual position of having to mend its image just days before a highly anticipated ...
