Cybercrime

Apple restores key parts of dev site after attack

Eight days after taking site offline, resurrects important sections, including dev centers and downloads

Top hacker dies days before scheduled Black Hat talk

Barnaby Jack was noted for his research on security flaws in ATMs and medical devices

Bitdefender Safepay offers secure browsing for online banking, shopping

The application provides a hardened browser that runs in a secured environment, Bitdefender said

US will not seek death penalty for Edward Snowden

Should he return to the U.S., Snowden would be eligible for a public trial by jury, according to a recent letter

Phishers try to fry Apple fanboyz after dev site breach

Some privacy advocates question mobile apps agreement

A code of conduct approved this week isn't enforceable, one critic says

Latest Cisco scammer allegedly netted whopping $37 million

Suspect said to have spent haul on real estate, cars … and his kids’ college funds

Microsoft: Almost 90 percent of Citadel botnets in the world disrupted in June

The malware was removed from forty percent of computers in those botnets, the company said

Tech Market Davids vs. Goliaths, Wearables and the Future of IT

Tight NSA spy vote gives hope to program critics

Privacy rights groups, others see 12-vote margin in U.S. House vote as a sign of growing opposition to domestic spy program