Security

Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks

Snowden's access to NSA data raises questions, the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee says

McAfee research shows sharp rise in malware signed with legitimate digital certificates

This 'certificate abuse' represents a growing threat, says McAfee researcher

Cisco paints its IT portrait

In first Interop keynote in six years, Chambers splashes broad strokes of the application centric landscape to come

Don’t Live in Fear of Your Cloud Storage Provider Going Under

Online drug dealer: Selling on Silk Road is like any other retail site

In a Q&A with Mashable, an online drug dealer gives an interesting glimpse into the day-to-day life of an online drug dealer.

Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information

Starting Oct. 31, Yahoo will pay between US$150 to $15,000 for flaws, in line with bounties paid by Facebook and Google

Start-up Netskope keeps watch on enterprise cloud usage

Monitoring service company's founders hail from Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, VMware

US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit

Lavabit said in August it was shutting down its service rather than be complicit in crimes against Americans

Mocana unwraps protection for iOS 7 apps

Support for Apple's latest OS will be available from Oct. 11

Faded satellite star LightSquared headed for auction block in November

Dish Network is likely to buy the bankrupt would-be LTE carrier