Security

M86 Security Labs report provides insight to plan security for 2012

“Virginia is for drones?”

Senators want unmanned aircraft testing center in Mid-Atlantic States

Google expands the scope of its vulnerability reward programs to cover Chromium OS

Google says that both its Web and Chromium security reward programs were a big success

Motorola Mobility fails to make patent case against Apple in German court

Just claiming a patent is essential to implement a standard is not enough, the court told Motorola Mobility

How to get the IRS’ attention: Forge nearly $8 million in tax returns, steal identities

Ex-IRS employee gets 105 months in prison for identity theft, fraud

Blogger exposes major Google Wallet security flaw

Google vows to fix hole in prepaid card system

Web app lets enterprise set security, sharing for Google Apps users

DomainWatch monitors assets, applies rules, flags violations

Cray courts the big-data market

But do we still need supercomputers when we have Hadoop?

Microsoft to issue more critical patches next week for Win7 than XP

IE update likely the one users will want to apply ASAP, say researchers

Google, Microsoft and Apple letters aim to keep regulators at bay

In detailing their stances on licensing essential patents, the companies hope to reassure regulators and standards bodies