Silverpac showcased an intelligent thermostat as CES that uses an interactive touchscreen interface. The system features a programmable 7 day cycle the is managed through a 7 inch display that illustrates how energy is being used in the home. The system can even isolate the energy use of specific appliances and suggest alternative use patterns to help save energy. The system also has Wi-Fi, allowing it to send usage data straight to the utility company.

The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left severely embarrassed after the revelation that its logo contains pirated material.

Adobe has issued a new round of security updates for its Reader and Acrobat applications.

A new encryption scheme for protecting 3G phone networks hasn't even gone into commercial use and already cryptographers have cracked it - at least theoretically.

Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system.

Microsoft today issued just one security update for Windows, the lowest number on a Patch Tuesday since January 2009.

It seems that hackers and malware authors are using new techniques to infect your home or office PC, as veteran IT security vendor Sophos has spotted a rash of fake Amazon `shipping email updates' over the weekend.

The diplomatic row between Israel and Turkey is now spilling over into cyberspace. Turkish hackers infiltrated the Jerusalemonline.com news Web site on Tuesday.

The South Korean military will ban the use of USB flash drives in an attempt to thwart increasing cyber attacks, officials at the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Jan. 12.

Romanian hackers continue to have a field day with SQL injection flaws in major Website applications: A vulnerability in a U.S. Army Website that leaves the database wide open to an attacker has now been exposed.

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It seems that China’s most popular search engine, with a market share of over 77% has been hacked by Iranian hackers. At present, the website is unavailable, but we have found a screenshot from Twitter user Budi Putra.

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking.

Suspicious applications that may have stolen users' online banking credentials have appeared on the Android Market, the Google-run app store for its mobile operating system.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is investigating a set of serious security vulnerabilities in supposedly secure USB flash drives revealed by a German security firm last week.

Security giant McAfee warned today that spammers are increasingly exploiting online hosting companies that provide free domains and web hosting, in order to bypass anti-spam filters.

Thales has announced too new security hardware platforms aimed at smaller businesses.