Security

How the U.S Can Avoid a ‘Cyber Cold War’

Hackers claim to steal 110,000 SSNs from Tenn. school system

Close to 9,000 SSNs belonging to students, employees publicly posted

Microsoft readies post-Flame Windows Update changes

Paused limited test update for Patch Tuesday, will feed more secure update client 'in a few days' to stymie Flame-like attacks

Verizon Wireless’ botched Shared Everything launch could sink carrier

New Verizon Share Everything plan is too complex for customers to grasp all at once, and it's too expensive, analyst says

US lawmakers quiz ZTE, Huawei over spying concerns

Congressmen are members of U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee

LinkedIn user alerts mistakenly blocked as spam

Researcher says more than 4% of intended recipients blocked LinkedIn's email instructions on resetting breached passwords

3 Things You Need to Know About How LinkedIn’s Calendar Works

Global Payments says data breach investigation turned up a second breach

This time, it's not payment card data but personal information on merchant applications

Microsoft scrambles as it patches 26 bugs, warns users of active attacks

Hectic, info-packed Patch Tuesday as software maker yanks update, patches worm-ready flaw and tells customers to get some fixes manually

Flame elevates security threat of USB drives

Success Flame creators had in using memory sticks will be studied by hackers