The pro-Iran hacktivist group that defaced the Baidu and Twitter Web sites a year ago has hit another target: the U.S. Government's Voice of America news site.
Microsoft's full-body game control system Project Natal will be launched in time for the holidays this year, in what promises to be a big year for Xbox 360 users.
The Kindle DX started shipping from Amazon.com on Wednesday, as promised and could reach customers Thursday when initial owner reviews are expected to start hitting blogs and Websites.
Just about anyone who's tried to take a self-portrait with a camera agrees: it's a hassle. Setting the scene, hitting the timer, then rushing into place only to find half of your head has been cut out is par for the course.
The questions are being asked more often: When a cyberattack hits your network, is it right to launch a counter-attack of some type to try to at least identify the source if not stop it? Since the wheels of justice do indeed grind slowly, should frustrated IT professionals with security skills take matters into their own hands or hire others to do so?
A new variant on the Prg Trojan, designed in Russia, is hitting victims to steal money from their banking accounts in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Italy, says Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks.
In publishing, if readers pass along used copies of our product - either the magazine hardcopy or the online version via links - we consider that a very valuable proposition because we are hitting a wider audience at no extra cost.
With U.S. markets rallying and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting record highs, analysts and industry insiders are expressing a sense of sober confidence, if not exuberance, about the tech sector's prospects for the year.
It should surprise exactly no one to learn that the iPhone 5 has been widely proclaimed to be the best smartphone in the world, and that it sold a mind-boggling 5 million units within days of hitting the market.
Terry Doub faced a familiar and frustrating situation when trying to dole out network services and application traffic to faculty, staff and students at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Doub, director of the LSU network operation center, says he worked hard to keep services running without hitting the max in bandwidth capacity.
When talking or texting, drivers take longer to hit the brakes -- even if they're not hitting tiny keyboards, researchers at the University of Utah have found.
Everything is getting bigger, disk drives included. Last week Hitachi and Seagate introduced some of the biggest drives - Hitachi topped the 1TB level, Seagate rolled out 1.5TB drives.
3Com may be getting a good portion of its LAN switching from its joint effort with Huawei Technologies, but it is hitting the hot areas of VoIP and security on its own.
Many companies have a love-hate relationship social media. They hate that employees may say something inappropriate or confidential, but they love the marketing impact of an army of workers hitting the social networks. We peek into Xerox's social media policy to see what the company tells its workers.
Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become the target of malware and are even getting hit by highly targeted attacks known as "advanced persistent threats" that intended to steal sensitive data, according to a survey of 676 IT and security professionals.
Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become the target of malware and are even getting hit by highly targeted attacks known as "advanced persistent threats" that intended to steal sensitive data, according to a survey of 676 IT and security professionals.
Click fraud, a scam based on the highly profitable search advertising business, dipped in the first quarter after hitting an all-time high in the last three months of 2008.
When end users purge unwanted spam from their inboxes, the potential environmental impact of hitting that delete button is probably the last thing on their minds. But Santa Clara-based McAfee said the act of deleting spam and searching for legitimate e-mail contributes to green house gas (GHG) emissions equivalent to 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion gallons of gasoline annually.
Big bad malware and zero-day attacks that fly under the radar of anti-virus software are hitting enterprises everywhere. With that in mind, HBGary is coming out with a 'do-it-yourself' tool to help security managers beat back Windows-based infections or prevent them while a zero-day outbreak is underway.
You may already have unwittingly downloaded malicious code while visiting a major Web site. Unfortunately, the discoverers of the code are afraid to name the sites affected - but we are assured that they are “big, big sites” at “major Web hosting facilities.” What does the code do? Well, it’s a keystroke reader, so it probably is recording what sites you visit and what username and password you use to get in.
New attack hitting Web users through major sites
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IPad fever has begun. The Apple tablets, in versions with just 802.11n connections or both 802.11n and 3G links, are hitting the store shelves as we speak. They even made an appearance on the network sitcom "Modern Family," further fueling iPad fervor. The iPad tablet, announced in January, has been optimized as a consumer device, but, like its cousin, the Apple iPhone, could wreak havoc on enterprise mobility management and security efforts as users bring them into the enterprise.