Network Security

Globalstar offers pre-paid satellite telephony with new subscription

Users can make calls for a!0.48 per minute while sailing or hiking in remote areas

Spammers buy Chrome extensions and turn them into adware

Two developers who sold their popular Chrome extensions saw them misused for aggressive advertising

Six more US retailers hit by Target-like hacks, security firm says

IntelCrawler also identified a 17-year-old Russian who it says wrote the BlackPOS malware, a version of which was used against Target

Obama fails to address NSA encryption-defeating methods, backdoors

The president's speech focuses more on a telephone records collection program than on the Internet, critics say

Cisco study finds unprecedented growth in threats

Annual Security Report says overall vulnerabilities have reached highest level since 2000

Security risk in Starbucks app a ‘wakeup call’ for consumers

Target credit card data was sent to server in Russia

The data was quietly moved around on Target's network before it was sent to a US server, then to Russia

HealthCare.gov still has major security problems, experts say

Democrats question whether outside security experts can tell what defenses are being deployed

Juniper announces Firefly Suite for virtual-machine security

Also, NSS Labs issues 'caution' rating for Juniper's SRX5800 in IPS evaluation tests

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