Security

Why help desk employees are a social engineer’s favorite target

Help desk staffers are too helpful; and that makes them a perfect target for a social engineering criminal

Report: Markets at risk due to cyberattacks against exchanges

Survey finds more than half of the world's financial exchanges fell victim to some kind of cyberattack in the last year

BYOD Creates Trust Gap Between Workers and Employers

Lawmakers: NSA phone records collection violated law

Several House members call on the NSA to end its program collecting the phone records of US residents

Quantum Dawn 2 will test Wall Street’s cyber readiness

Dozens of organizations are set to participate in massive cyber exercise Thursday

Colliding, exploding stars may have created all the gold on Earth

Gamma-ray burst of energy may have created all the gold in universe say researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Apple, Microsoft to leap on app auto-update bandwagon

Fall updates to iOS, OS X and Windows will automate app patching, another step in removing responsibilities from users

Droid Ultra smartphone expected at next week’s Verizon event

Several smartphone unveilings coming, including iPhone 5S

South Korea blames North Korea for cyberattacks

Microsoft researcher on ‘special class of user/adversary:’ children

‘Children represent a unique challenge to … the home and technology deployed within it.’