Security

Hackers target iPad owners with bogus update

Dupe Windows users into downloading backdoor Trojan; Mac owners not at risk

HP updates Network Mode Manager

Calif. police seize computers in ‘lost’ iPhone case

Police task force grabs Gizmodo editor's computers, hard drives, cameras in search for evidence of possible felony

Covert Investigations 2: Video Recording Devices

Cisco finally releases 64bit IPSEC client

Win7 and Vista 64bit get a free Cisco IPSEC client

Air Force launches first of many reusable rocket ships

Air Force teaming with NASA to develop reusable rockets

The future of open source is in the middle

Open-source software is likely to remain in certain niches, former Red Hat VP Erik Troan says, but open source is increasingly becoming a necessary foundation.

NASA wants public to join in Hubble Telescope’s 20th anniversary extravaganza

Twitter, Facebook, crowdsourcing the galaxies with NASA’s Hubble Telescope

1.5 million stolen Facebook IDs up for sale

A hacker named Kirllos is offering to sell the accounts in an underground forum for 2.5 cents per account

McAfee exec adds new apology, sketchy explanation for update debacle

Blames changes in testing for letting buggy update get loose; users want to hear CEO say 'sorry'