Security

Spear-phishing stats reveal unexplained holiday spikes

FireEye asks why attacks go way up on holidays other than Christmas and New Year's

DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

The agency also approves patent purchase deals by Apple, Microsoft and RIM

Startup sets up website malware detection service

StopTheHacker technology originally funded under $600,000 National Science Foundation grant

Let the games begin: NASA political budget pong opens at $17.7 billion

NASA 2013 budget helps, hurts depending on program

Security Manager’s Journal: Hackers phone home — on our dime

Someone is making calls costing thousands of dollars via the IP telephony setup in a small European office.

Continuous Transaction Monitoring (CTM) protects financial integrity, even when network security inevitably fails

Audits begin at Apple’s Chinese supplier plants

Fair Labor Association team starts with Foxconn's facilities in Shenzhen

How does mobile device management (MDM) work?

Meeting mobile IT's need for securing apps, policies and permissions across the multi-OS smart device enterprise

Google clamps down on its pre-paid Google Wallet card on smartphones

Move follows two independent hacks described on blogs

Hackers probably stole Steam transaction data, Valve says

Valve found evidence that suggests Steam hackers copied encrypted credit card details and billing addresses