Network Security

The security industry found its dream enemy in 2013 — and new technical challenges too

Revelations about mass surveillance will fuel encryption adoption in the next year, but implementing it will take care, security experts say

7 sneak attacks used by today’s most devious hackers

Report: NSA intercepts computer deliveries to plant spyware

Germany's Der Spiegel, citing secret documents, also reported the NSA has backdoors in Juniper, Cisco, Huawei and Dell products

Mobile management: InfoWorld’s expert guide

Judge rules NSA’s phone data collection program is legal, tosses ACLU suit

The metadata collection represents "the natural tension between protecting the nation and preserving civil liberty," judge says

Target confirms customer PINs were taken in breach, but says data is safe

But the PINs were encrypted and therefore should be inaccessible to hackers, according to the retailer

Attackers could match phone numbers to Snapchat accounts, researchers say

A legitimate feature for finding friends on Snapchat lacks rate limiting and can be abused, a security research group claims

Edward Snowden’s Christmas message: a child born today will have no conception of privacy

Increasing government surveillance is leaving us with less freedom to determine who we are and who we want to be, Snowden told UK TV viewers

Web server malware for Nginx, Apache advertised on underground market

Effusion malware infects Web servers and injects rogue content into websites

Senators call on FTC to investigate Target breach

The FTC should have more authority to sanction victoms of data breaches, Senator Richard Blumenthal says