Security

Building a better password

Conventional wisdom about what constitutes a good password is wrong

Target credit card data was sent to server in Russia

The data was quietly moved around on Target's network before it was sent to a US server, then to Russia

US forces Silk Road to give up $28M in bitcoins

A New York court forced Ross Ulbricht to forfeit 29,655 bitcoins and the Silk Road website

Starbucks vows to beef up security on its iPhone app

Barista dismisses concerns about plain-text passwords for payment process

Security firm IDs malware used in Target attack

iSight describes Trojan as sophisticated derivate of older point-of-sale malware

Hackathon geared toward the ‘liberation’ of data from public PDF documents

The Sunlight Foundation and others will sponsor a three-day hackathon starting Friday

HealthCare.gov still has major security problems, experts say

Democrats question whether outside security experts can tell what defenses are being deployed

Juniper announces Firefly Suite for virtual-machine security

Also, NSS Labs issues 'caution' rating for Juniper's SRX5800 in IPS evaluation tests

Next Gen NAC is designed to facilitate BYOD

A year after Swartz suicide, reform of anti-hacking law remains elusive

Calls for changing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act have made little headway