Network Security

FTC takes action against alleged Obamacare spammer

The company sent email messages trying to trick people into signing up for insurance before the deadline, the agency says

Would NFC smartphones have helped at Target?

'Pin and chip' smartcards may be next, not NFC smartphones, but liability questions remain

Romanian authorities arrest man suspected of being celebrity hacker Guccifer

Over the past year, Guccifer hacked into the email addresses of US and foreign politicians, celebrities and other public figures

Authentication bypass bug exposes Foscam webcams to unauthorized access

Remote users can access the video stream without a username and password

Neiman Marcus says ‘complex’ malware defeated its security

The retailer's CIO writes that the company exceeded security recommendations for handling card data

New Windows malware tries to infect Android devices connected to PCs

Researchers from Symantec found a Windows Trojan program that uses ADBto install online banking malware on Android devices

Snapchat’s new image-based human verification system already defeated

The new anti-bot system can easily be bypassed using computer vision techniques, CAPTCHA experts say

Engineer nets Facebook’s biggest bug bounty, but not the jackpot he hoped for

Reginaldo Silva was awarded $33,500, but had quietly hoped for more

Some Tor exit nodes attempt to spy on encrypted traffic, researchers find

19 Tor exit relays used self-signed certificates to launch man-in-the-middle attacks against HTTPS and SSH connections

‘GenMobile’ Thinks Beyond 9-to-5