Sep 24, 2013

German group uses glue, printer to hack into new iPhone

The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple’s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in ...

Privacy analysts question iPhone fingerprint scanner

Sep 23, 2013

Privacy analysts question iPhone fingerprint scanner

One of the highlights of the iPhone 5S, the fingerprint scanner, is facing two concerns that may take a little shine off Apple’s cool new feature. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over how Apple plans to handle this highly sensitive data. And many consumers ...

Sep 21, 2013

British hacked Belgian telecom firm: Der Spiegel

Britain’s intelligence services were behind a cyberattack on state-owned Belgian telecom giant Belgacom, a German newsweekly reported Friday. Der Spiegel magazine said documents it had seen from fugitive U.S. leaker Edward Snowden’s “archive” indicated that the goal of the project, code-named Operation Socialist, was ...

Sep 7, 2013

Google races to keep out government spies

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move is ...

Fascinating glimpse into world of hacking

Aug 31, 2013

Fascinating glimpse into world of hacking

by Carole Cadwalladr

It is perhaps a little hard to remember now, but in 2010, there seemed to be a new global superpower. A superpower that acted in unorthodox ways, which was unaccountable and yet of the people, and that was above all nameless, faceless and, as ...

Aug 31, 2013

Microsoft, Google unite on lawsuit against gag orders

Microsoft on Friday said that a battle to shed light on secret U.S. government requests for Internet user data will play out in court after failed peace talks. Microsoft and Google filed suits in federal court in June, arguing they have a right to ...

Aug 31, 2013

Secret documents detail U.S. war in cyberspace

by Barton Gellman

The Obama administration's cyber operations sometimes involve what one leaked budget document calls "field operations" abroad, commonly with the help of CIA operatives or clandestine military forces, "to physically place hardware implants or software modifications."

Chinese Internet struck by 'largest cyberattack' ever

Aug 27, 2013

Chinese Internet struck by 'largest cyberattack' ever

China has been hit by the “largest ever” attack on its Internet infrastructure, crashing the country’s .cn servers, according to a government-linked agency. The national domain name resolution service came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for around two hours early on ...

Jul 28, 2013

Defcon to deliver auto industry wake-up call

by Rob Lever

Computer geeks already knew it was possible to hack into a car’s computerized systems and potentially alter some electronic control functions. But new research to be presented this week shows the vulnerabilities are greater and the potential for mischief worse than believed, in a ...