Network Security

Bluetooth Smart going into wireless device chargers

The low-power wireless technology will help to manage wireless charging

McAfee sets sandbox appliance to explode stealthy malware

Sandboxing appliance, integrated with McAfee Real Time for remediation, seeks to trump competitor FireEye

Silent Circle moves away from NIST cryptographic standards, cites uncertainty

The company plans to replace AES and SHA-2 with Twofish and Skein in its encrypted communication services

More NSA leaks to come, Guardian says

Journalists from the British paper provide new details around the process for publishing leaks

Public release of IE exploit could spark widespread attacks

Exploit module for yet-to-be-patched Internet Explorer vulnerability added to Metasploit

Security company scours ‘Dark Web’ for stolen data

Companies are looking for new ways to monitor the brisk trade in stolen information on underground forums

Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess

Researchers freed 500,000 infected computers from operators of the ZeroAccess botnet

Brute-force malware targets email and FTP servers

Researchers find Fort Disco malware variants launching brute force password guessing attacks against POP3 and FTP servers

7 sneak attacks used by today’s most devious hackers

Google finally squashes IM bug

The glitch caused Google IM apps to deliver messages to the wrong recipients