Network Security

Location-tracking turns your smartphone into your stalker

DB Networks’ new core IDS aims to stop SQL injection attacks

Take that, Facebook! Twitter’s news junkies are younger, more educated

Just ahead of IPO, study also shows Twitter users more apt to use mobile devices

Google clamps down on password security in Chrome ‘Canary’

Reaction to August brouhaha over Chrome's practice of letting anyone see passwords in plain text

Spike in traffic with TCP source port zero has some researchers worried

Traffic with this source port might indicate reconnaissance for future attacks, researchers from Cisco said

IDC tabs ‘Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection’ as new security segment

STAP technologies work alongside signature-based anti-malware and intrusion-detection and prevention systems

Adobe confirms stolen passwords were encrypted, not hashed

System hit was not protected by traditional best practices, used 3DES instead

Beyond breach prevention: The need for adequate response

As threats have evolved, more enterprises are struggling with quickly finding malware that has infected their systems

In Wake of BlackBerry’s Demise, CIOs Look to Samsung, Apple and Microsoft

CryptoLocker creators try to extort even more money from victims with new service

Users who removed the original malware infection, intentionally or not, are asked to pay five times more to recover their files