Security

Mobile, security tools among education tech favorites

IT pros in education rave about MDM, security, network monitoring wares

How to protect against cross-site request forgery attacks

CSRF attacks are becoming more sophisticated, but there are many ways you can prevent them

‘Find My iPhone’ foils pickpocket who swiped 100 devices: police

IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle

The Hajime malware is competing with the Mirai malware to enslave some IoT devices

Virtual assistants hear everything, so watch what you say. I’m not kidding

Virtual assistants such as Google Home and Amazon Echo lack security guards, raising questions about safety and privacy

Cyber-sleuth boots 15 cheaters from today’s Boston Marathon

Cybercrime—from inside an Ohio prison

Ohio inmates turned e-waste into working PCs and connected them to the prison network—then went on a cybercrime spree

The rising security risk of the citizen developer

Citizen developers may help enterprises to develop apps more quickly, but what is this new breed of developer going to do to enterprise security?

What it takes to be a security consultant

The move to security consultant can be rewarding and challenging (in a good way), but be prepared to market and sell yourself and your services.

Microsoft: Past patches address leaked NSA exploits

The patches -- one of which was issued last month -- address the exploits found in the Shadow Brokers leak