Security

How you could be collateral damage of ‘hacktivism’

If you’re in the same cloud as a hack target, you could be hit, too

Got $500? You can buy a hacked U.S. military website

In an underground forum, control of military and government websites can be bought cheap

Sony sends ‘dangerous’ message with PS3 suit, says EFF

Fight over PS3 jailbreak seen as effort to intimidate security researchers

Google fires back about search engine spam

Google says it is taking action to weed out spam

Get more out of encryption than compliance with a mandate

Cisco beefs up WIPS capabilities

Adds time-slicing security option to APs

Cisco report notes new cybercrime targets

Mobile platforms passing Windows PCs as scamming interface

Twitter targeted with fake antivirus software scam

Twitter has been resetting passwords for accounts that distributed the bad link

Is retaliation the answer to cyber attacks?

The law frowns on cyber attacks but Black Hat speakers advocate exploiting vulnerabilities in attack tools and botnets against attackers

Gartner slams Cisco’s single-vendor network vision

Gartner says multivendor networks provide cost savings with no increase in complexity or unreliability