Security

Pricing a low-cost iPhone: How ‘cheap’ is cheap?

How, and why, Apple may price an “iPhone 5C”

Rise in data breaches drives interest in cyber insurance

Baby monitor hack highlights manufacturers’ security shortfalls

Hackers targeting servers running Apache Struts applications, researchers say

A tool for exploiting known Struts vulnerabilities is available on Chinese hacker forums, Trend Micro researchers said

Microsoft yanks troublesome Exchange security patch

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has released, then withdrew, buggy software patches

Will NSA spying make the sheeple leave the embrace of the big ‘Net companies? I doubt it.

An article by security expert Bruce Schneier in The Atlantic paints a grim picture of the consequences of Internet monitoring by the government but what do the sheeple want?

What are the next Big Space Life Questions?

NASA astrobiology community is setting goals for future exploration goals

USENIX: Gamers use DDoS as a service to cheat – a lot

Inexpensive DDoS-as-a-service can stress-test your network or attack someone else’s, researchers say

Encryption news: What you need to know

A recap of the week's big news in encryption.

New York Post hit by pro-Assad hackers

New York Post latest victim of the Syrian Electronic Army after the hackers manage to social engineer Social Flow