Survey: More than half of young Americans have been cyberbullied By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune Published Sep 27, 2011 05:24PM MDT More than half of teens and young adults surveyed in a new national study say they have been the victim of cyberbullying, a still new and misunderstood…
Survey: More than half of young Americans have been cyberbullied
Survey: More than half of young Americans have been cyberbullied By Vince Horiuchi The Salt Lake Tribune Published Sep 27, 2011 05:24PM MDT More than half of teens and young adults surveyed in a new national study say they have been the victim of cyberbullying, a still new and misunderstood…
Are Apple products really more secure?
One thing I hear regularly when working in the computer security field are comments from Apple users along the lines of: “Why doesn’t everybody use Apple because there are no viruses for Macs?” or “All viruses target Windows because Windows sucks so bad” or “Microsoft is the target because Microsoft…
Researcher uncovers more SCADA zero-day flaws
An Italian researcher has published details of a new batch of unpatched vulnerabilities found in the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) products from seven different vendors. Assessing the significance of the 14 zero-day vulnerabilities explained by Luigi Auriemma in proof-of-concept detail with exploit code is incredibly difficult to do,…
Anon’s foil Aaron Barr is back—and he wants more cybersecurity offensives
Barr is back in business. Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal, memorably had his corporate e-mail exposed to the world by Anonymous earlier this year after attempting to expose the group’s “leadership.” Based on our reporting, comedian Stephen Colbert memorably summed up the encounter : “To put this…
DigiNotar hacker vows to use more fake certificates
A hacker known as Comodohacker has taken responsibility for the recent attack against Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and is now threatening to release fake security certificates for other companies that he has hacked. Beyond issuing a phony certificate for Google.com, DigiNotar has admitted that the attack actually caused the company…
Former Naples bank manager admits stealing more than $200,000
A 33-year-old former Naples bank manager who took out more than $212,000 in credit using wealthy customers’ names because she’d just had a baby and her husband was unemployed pleaded no contest today to a fraud charge. View full post on credit report fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View…
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Anonymous no more – hackers under the microscope
Anonymous is not so anonymous any more. The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated internet collective have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the… View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National…
Post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts more cooperative, proactive
Before 9/11, law-enforcement agencies often operated independently and with less urgency. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security