Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies….
Act smart on phone hacks
Smartphone users are likely to be the next target of computer hackers, security experts at the Hong Kong Productivity Council have warned. View full post on computer security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Clay Maynard: Smart technology capable of spying on us
Even George Orwell could not have imagined that almost everyone would someday carry a smartphone (a small computer-controlled wireless phone) with a built-in camera capable of spying on its user. Yet President Barack Obama carries a smartphone, albeit an encrypted one.The terms “Big… View full post on spyware jail –…
Japan plans smart grids that could treat energy ‘like network data’
Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet handles data, using “routers” and “service providers” to efficiently manage and direct the flow of electricity. The Digital Grid Consortium, which was officially founded in September and…
Middletown man tracked woman with smart phone spyware, police say
CRAWFORD — Town of Crawford police have charged a Middletown man with multiple felonies after they said he installed spyware on a Pine Bush woman’s smart phone, accessed all her data and tracked her movements. View full post on spyware jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Shoestring Living: Keys to smart carpooling
Security forces clashed with several thousand protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least 24 people and has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of the military. View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News…
Why embedded systems are “terrifyingly important” – Embedded systems engineer Elecia White on race cars, smart dust, and learning on the fly.
Author and embedded systems engineer Elecia White discusses the state of embedded systems and what lies ahead (hint: distributed intelligence and microdots). View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary View full post on National Cyber Security
ESET Smart Security 5 review
The suite includes a smart firewall, parental control, a system rescue disk and a diagnostic suite, which analyses running modules, registry content, startup items and network connections. It installs fairly simply, and you can easily move from the free trial version to a full account, simply by buying a licence….
Being Smart about Cloud Security
An authority on Web security believes your data might be safer in the cloud. For many companies, cloud computing sounds like risky business. They worry that storing customer details or running critical software on the servers of cloud providers such as Amazon or Google could make their data more vulnerable…