Cybercrime

‘HoneyDocs’ lays irresistible bait for hackers

The Web service is designed to let people know when hackers are snooping

Patch expert wants Ballmer to get to the bottom of buggy Windows, Office updates

Susan Bradley calls string of flawed patches 'unacceptable;' Microsoft manager argues Office updates are 'very high' quality

50 million users strong, Versafe brings online fraud protection to North America

Online fraud detection and prevention provider now covering the U.S. market

Microsoft updates display ‘worrisome’ decline in quality

Never-ending demands to install quartet of Office security updates is the latest in a series of missteps

Surveillance court orders transparency review of its NSA opinions

The court tells government agencies to review its own orders related to the legality of telephone records collection

Rogue hardware used in attempted cyberheist at Santander bank branch

One criminal impersonated a maintenance engineer and tried to attach a KVM switch to a bank computer for remote control purposes

Court ruling a warning to companies on workers’ Facebook privacy

Apple issues final non-security update for OS X Mountain Lion

Patches 30 vulnerabilities, also ships updates for Lion and aged Snow Leopard

Court decision in Google Street View case called unpersuasive, flawed

Tech think-tank argues Google did not violate Wiretap Act

Oracle adds long-awaited whitelisting capabilities to Java

Java 7 Update 40 allows system administrators to define which specific Java applets should be trusted and executed