Accuvant Labs’ Charlie Miller talks to Tom’s Hardware about the Defender’s Dilemma, the security of data in the cloud, looking for vulnerabilities in notebook batteries, and the ramifications of using Apple’s iPad in an enterprise environment. If you’re not already familiar with Charlie Miller, check out Behind Pwn2Own: Exclusive Interview …
With online threats becoming bigger, more sophisticated, more camouflaged and deadlier, it is time to relook every single click you make while you are on the Internet. In fact, given the surfeit of new threats, it would not be a bad idea for most of the Internet surfers to reconsider …
Every January, security software firm ESET releases its Global Threat Report — and this year, online game password security has become a primary concern. Gamasutra spoke with Jeff Debrosse, ESET’s research director, to learn more. Read on for the interview. ESET’s full report (PDF) is also available Download article as …
A law criminalising denial of service attacks and the supply of hacking tools has been brought into force in England and Wales after a number of delays. The law was already in force in Scotland. Denial of service (DoS) attacks involve the simultaneous sending of millions of messages or page …
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant’s controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP. On October 20, Dong Zhengwei, a lawyer of Beijing Zhongyin Law Office, sent a complaint to …