Security

To dox a predator: Anonymous leaks PII of alleged pedophiles

Anonymous follows through on its July 8th promise to launch Operation PedoChat, attacking websites that facilitate child pornography, and releasing incriminating messages pertaining even to European political figures.

Feds: We need priority access to cloud resources

Federal report says before national security and emergency response workloads can be placed in commercial clouds, the government needs assurance resources will be available during emergencies

In face of Flame malware, Microsoft will revamp Windows encryption keys

Microsoft security change could cause problems for legacy systems, applications accessing Web sites and email platforms

Smartphone, tablet security and management guidelines on tap from NIST

NIST emphasizes employee-owned BYOD devices as riskier than organization-issued products

Feds slash $2.7 million online loan-fraud scheme

More than 2,000 victims believed to have lost $2.7 million to Web-based crime ring

How to Build a Data Protection Plan That Ensures Application Recovery

Warp Trojan from China said to fool routers into spreading Windows malware

Security firm says Chinese malware spreads infections through trick involving unsolicited ARP requests to routers

Want to be part of the intelligence world? DARPA has a software project for you

DARPA Innovation House project recruiting software developers for content intelligence applications

Java-based Web attack installs backdoors on Windows, Linux, Mac computers

Security researchers identify Web-based malware attack that targets Windows, Linux and Mac OS X users alike

FTC to revisit robocall menace

FTC to examine ways to trace robocalls, prevent wrongdoers from faking caller ID data and other ways to stop illegal calls