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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/technology/security technology Security News en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:47:53 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/technology/security http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20120213/tc_mashable/hotmail_top_spamstopping_email_hotmailcommissioned_study_says_video mashable/20120213/hotmail_top_spamstopping_email_hotmailcommissioned_study_says_video Mashable technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:47:53 GMT Mashable - Hotmail is the top spam-stopping major email service, says a study commissioned by Hotmail. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_hi_te/iran_nuclear ap/20120213/iran_nuclear AP technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:04:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_hi_te/iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120214/i/r3305319097.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=GopFd9BGHy.0aSYyNZ5J0A--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Yukiya Amano, director general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) poses for a picture during an interview with Reuters at the University Cultural Center in Mexico City February 14, 2012. Amano, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday the agency does not know if during talks later this month Iran would give it access to a military site named in a report that said Iran could have worked on nuclear weapons. Amano is in Mexico to commemorate the 45th Anniversary the Tlatelolco regional anti-nuclear proliferation treaty. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)" border="0" /></a>AP - A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_hi_te/iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20120214/i/r3305319097.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=GopFd9BGHy.0aSYyNZ5J0A--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Yukiya Amano, director general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) poses for a picture during an interview with Reuters at the University Cultural Center in Mexico City February 14, 2012. Amano, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday the agency does not know if during talks later this month Iran would give it access to a military site named in a report that said Iran could have worked on nuclear weapons. Amano is in Mexico to commemorate the 45th Anniversary the Tlatelolco regional anti-nuclear proliferation treaty. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/wr_nm/us_india_microsoft nm/20120213/us_india_microsoft Reuters technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:07:47 GMT Reuters - Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after being hacked, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers' obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_on_re_us/us_hacked_anonymous_alabama ap/20120210/us_hacked_anonymous_alabama AP us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:21:33 GMT AP - Computer hackers claiming to be from the loose-knit group known as Anonymous say they have broken into several Alabama law enforcement and government websites and have stolen the personal information for more than 46,000 people. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120210/wr_nm/us_socialmedia_privacy_path nm/20120210/us_socialmedia_privacy_path Reuters technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:15 GMT Reuters - A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120210/tc_digitaltrends/troubleiniparadiseprotesterstargetapplehackerstargetfoxconn digitaltrends/20120210/troubleiniparadiseprotesterstargetapplehackerstargetfoxconn Digital Trends technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:13:16 GMT Digital Trends - Following the recent rumor that Apple will unveil its highly anticipated successor to the most popular tablet ever in less than a month, the cacophony of iPad 3 buzz has grown deafening. Yet at the same time, a very different sort of cry is developing—one that the tech Goliath (at the time of this writing valued greater than Microsoft and Google — combined) is less experienced in dealing with. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120209/tc_digitaltrends/mittromneyfavoritegopcandidateamongemailspammers digitaltrends/20120209/mittromneyfavoritegopcandidateamongemailspammers Digital Trends technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:04:37 GMT Digital Trends - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney may be on the fast track to the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election. But his high profile has earned him another, less brag-worthy, title: King of political spam. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120209/wr_nm/us_defence_cyber nm/20120209/us_defence_cyber Reuters technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:09:30 GMT Reuters - With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120208/wr_nm/us_security nm/20120208/us_security Reuters technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:37 GMT Reuters - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120207/wr_nm/us_symantec_hackers nm/20120207/us_symantec_hackers Reuters technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:25:48 GMT Reuters - A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10982_fresh_iphone_apps_for_feb_7_hotels_by_orbitz_triplingo_romance_edition_the_hacker_dream_pethouse/44442959/SIG=14iuoi71r/*http://www.appolicious.com/games/articles/10982-fresh-iphone-apps-for-feb-7-hotels-by-orbitz-triplingo-romance-edition-the-hacker-dream-pethouse appolicious_rss/20120207/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10982_fresh_iphone_apps_for_feb_7_hotels_by_orbitz_triplingo_romance_edition_the_hacker_dream_pethouse Appolicious technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:23:00 GMT Appolicious - Get ready for your next trip with today’s leading fresh app, Hotels by Orbitz, which leverages the popular travel service to help you find hotel accommodations. If you happen to be planning a trip overseas, then our next app, TripLingo Romance Edition, which can teach you flirty phrases in 10 languages, might come in handy as well. In games, The Hacker will give you something of the experience of hacking into a 1980s-style computer, while Dream Pethouse brings you a casual game experience where you’ll raise pets and build them a giant tree house. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20120207/tc_digitaltrends/anonymouspublishesemailexchangewithsymantecover50kpayoff digitaltrends/20120207/anonymouspublishesemailexchangewithsymantecover50kpayoff Digital Trends technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:38:59 GMT Digital Trends - Released in a Pastebin dump earlier today, members of Anonymous published a long series of emails between Anonymous member “Yamatough” and a representative of Symantec going by the name of Sam Thomas. While there’s no Sam Thomas listed on LinkedIn as working at Symantec, the IP address within the header of the exchange linked to the original “sam_thomas@symantec.com” email account can be traced back to Symantec’s Mountain View, California headquarters. Writing from a Venezuelan email address, Yamatough was eventually offered $50,000 by Thomas to deliver proof of pcAnywhere and Norton Antivirus source code as well as destroy the original code. Thomas also wanted Anonymous to release a statement that the group did not hack Symantec during 2006.   http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10979_symantec_warns_of_mutating_malware_in_android_market/44435749/SIG=135k6p9gg/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10979-symantec-warns-of-mutating-malware-in-android-market appolicious_rss/20120206/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10979_symantec_warns_of_mutating_malware_in_android_market Appolicious technology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:11:00 GMT Appolicious - The world of mobile device malware is getting a little more dangerous with the announcement from tech security company Symantec that it has discovered malware programs that mutate every time they’re downloaded. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120206/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_regulating_industry ap/20120206/us_cyber_regulating_industry AP technology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:44:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120206/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_regulating_industry"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120205/capt.277453d5b3424b61ae1c4da29cf2e9bf-277453d5b3424b61ae1c4da29cf2e9bf-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Fdq3Q28IkeyEhfxPGrgPJw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. presides over the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. “But where the market has failed, and critical systems are insecure, the government has a responsibility to step in,” said Leiberman. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120206/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_regulating_industry"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120205/capt.277453d5b3424b61ae1c4da29cf2e9bf-277453d5b3424b61ae1c4da29cf2e9bf-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Fdq3Q28IkeyEhfxPGrgPJw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. presides over the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. “But where the market has failed, and critical systems are insecure, the government has a responsibility to step in,” said Leiberman. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120203/ap_on_hi_te/hacking_fbi ap/20120203/hacking_fbi AP technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:04:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120203/ap_on_hi_te/hacking_fbi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120203/capt.1c243e7107f74c27af9575eb47bef282-1c243e7107f74c27af9575eb47bef282-0.jpg?x=130&y=121&q=85&sig=HK1tnbk9oEkcy8A_wHv.Aw--" align="left" height="121" width="130" alt="This two picture combo shows, above: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, and below, New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, also Friday Feb. 3, 2012. Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cyber crime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard. The hacker group Anonymous has released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120203/ap_on_hi_te/hacking_fbi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120203/capt.1c243e7107f74c27af9575eb47bef282-1c243e7107f74c27af9575eb47bef282-0.jpg?x=130&y=121&q=85&sig=HK1tnbk9oEkcy8A_wHv.Aw--" align="left" height="121" width="130" alt="photo" title="This two picture combo shows, above: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, and below, New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, also Friday Feb. 3, 2012. Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cyber crime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard. The hacker group Anonymous has released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Alastair Grant)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10951_android_os_rules_in_u_s_gets_a_bouncer_to_keep_malware_out_the_market/44405287/SIG=13mtui3p1/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10951-android-os-rules-in-u-s-gets-a-bouncer-to-keep-malware-out-the-market appolicious_rss/20120203/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10951_android_os_rules_in_u_s_gets_a_bouncer_to_keep_malware_out_the_market Appolicious technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:17:00 GMT Appolicious - The Android platform expanded its dominance in the U.S. smartphone market during Q4 of 2011, according to the latest ComScore report. Apple may have boosted its share of the mobile handset market with the release of the iPhone 4S, but Android’s still the clear winner in terms of OS use, powering 47.3 percent of surveyed subscribers. That’s up from 44.8 percent last year, growing by slightly more percentage points than Apple’s increase to 29.6 percent from 27.4 percent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120203/wr_nm/us_google_security nm/20120203/us_google_security Reuters technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:50:25 GMT Reuters - Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120202/wr_nm/us_hacking_disclosures nm/20120202/us_hacking_disclosures Reuters technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:46:14 GMT Reuters - At least a half-dozen major U.S. companies whose computers have been infiltrated by cyber criminals or international spies have not admitted to the incidents despite new guidance from securities regulators urging such disclosures. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10938_android_malware_turned_out_to_be_benign/44392265/SIG=12otagl1r/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10938-android-malware-turned-out-to-be-benign appolicious_rss/20120202/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10938_android_malware_turned_out_to_be_benign Appolicious technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:15:00 GMT Appolicious - Consumers got a lesson in malware safety this week when Symantec and Lookout security companies presented different perspectives on “Android.Counterclank.” Symantec identified the string of apps as malware, but Lookout insisted the apps weren’t malicious but merely annoying adware Trojans. After several days of debating the semantics of malware, Symantec retracted its original statement, falling in line with Lookout’s assessment after all. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/security/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120202/wr_nm/us_avgtech nm/20120202/us_avgtech Reuters technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:32:51 GMT Reuters - Anti-virus software maker AVG Technologies NV priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, at the low end of the expected range, according to a market source.