Security

NSA chief asks hackers at Defcon for help securing cyberspace

NSA Director General Keith B. Alexander called the Defcon attendees the world's best cybersecurity community

Apple’s first security talk at Black Hat disappoints

Twitter suffers malware spam outbreak

Links promising photos of users lead to the Blackhole exploit kit

Black Hat: Researcher pinpoints promising ways to attack Windows 8

Windows 8 has soft spots where attackers could apply pressure, researcher says

AC/DC in Iranian nuclear facility attack and World Internet War I

Malware attacked an Iranian nuclear facility and played them a song ...

Apple to spend $356 million on security company AuthenTec

The Florida company had recently signed a deal with Samsung for security on Android devices

Researcher wins $200,000 prize from Microsoft for new exploit mitigation technology

Security researcher Vasilis Pappas won Microsoft's BlueHat Prize contest

Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database

Accuvant Labs' David Litchfield demos his latest Oracle 11g database hack

Latest Citadel scam sophisticated — except for grammar

Pitch to scam people out of their credit card information via fake charity come-ons targeted but poor English a giveaway

Apple security guru lays out iPad, iPhone crypto architecture at Black Hat

Apple’s Dallas De Atley says crypto processing can impact iOS device performance, battery life