Satellites can bring a digital signal to places where the Internet seems like a miracle: off-the-grid desert solar farms, the Arctic or an aircraft carrier at sea. But in beaming data to and from the world's most remote places, satellite Internet may also offer its signal to a less benign recipient: any digital miscreant within thousands of miles.

A consortium of security and infrastructure management organisations has launched a new project to help secure Domain Name System (DNS) queries.

A Las Vegas web developer has been charged with fleecing eBay out of tens of thousands of dollars by selling a program that planted fraudulent web cookies on the PCs of people visiting the online auctioneer.

If you think that ensuring one’s Internet privacy is the only mean of the Tor software then you are wrong twice. First off, its suballocated network can be used for different purposes. And secondly, it’s not as safe as it’s painted. Alas.

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McAfee’s latest threat report for the fourth quarter of 2009 saw a drop in spam over the period, although the year ended with overall amounts rising.

Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for sale.

Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.

With the PwnageTool app now updated for Mac OS X users, most of the iPhone Dev Team’s set of jailbreak and unlock tools now supports iPhone firmware 3.1.3, the latest update from Apple. Although Softpedia does not condone jailbreaking, those who do wish to employ these tools and hack their iPhones should at least follow a few guidelines, so they don’t brick their devices.

Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month.

The coming May 2010 automated election is surrounded by controversy and a number of technological fears. It all started with the defacement of some government websites and now the much talked about importation of 5,000 jamming devices. All these sounded new to the ordinary people, but to those who belong to the I.T. industry - especially those who are involved in security knows that cyber attacks happen everyday, and the impact / cost is staggering.

US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers.

Какое-то время назад у бегающих гиков была забава — купить комплект Nike+ (которые были у нас в основном с разряженными несменяемыми батарейками) с iPod nano да со специальными кроссовками Nike. Тогда каждый бегающий гик вступал в социальную интернет-пузомерку и мог соревноваться, побеждать, покорять мировые рейтинги бегая вокруг своего дома.

В этом видео мы покажем, насколько просто может быть взломана беспроводная сеть, даже если она защищена WPA. Единственное условие - перехваченный handshake (пакет аутентификации). Для того чтобы получить его, мы временно отсоединим беспроводного клиента, послав в сеть левый пакет деаутентификации