Security

‘Francophoned’ cybertheft operation reportedly back in action

Attackers steal funds from French organizations using spear phishing, information-snatching malware and rogue phone calls

Megaupload seeks return of millions in frozen Hong Kong assets

Hong Kong's Department of Justice has until June 4 to respond

Privacy jitters derail controversial K-12 big data initiative

InBloom said its initiative would have allowed schools to offer customized instruction to students

Cloud Attacks Are Following Enterprise Workloads

Survey respondents shun much-hyped mobile shopping technologies

Most unaware of, uninterested in, or hostile to mobile tracking, paying

Russian SMS Trojan for Android hits US, dozens of other countries

Android malware that sends text messages to premium-rate numbers expanded globally over the past year, researchers warn

Self-taught hackers rule

Netgear patch said to leave backdoor problem in router

A security researcher claims Netgear's firmware update further hides the backdoor, but doesn't remove it

Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed

A few office-productivity apps are protected from Heartbleed thanks to a mistake

While Heartbleed distracts, hackers hit US universities

As many as 250,000 people could be affected by a wave of attacks not using Heartbleed