In one report (PDF), researchers Jart Armin, James McQuaid and Matt Jonkman detail how a one of ICANN's prized sponsors has ties to one of the net's more prolific sources of malware and illegal online pharmacies. It's called LogicBoxes, and over the past two years, ICANN has listed it as a sponsor for meetings that took place in La, Cal and India.
Is this something to do with the French Professional Golfers' Association? Non! The acronym stands for Field Programmable Gate Arrays – that is, a very interesting class of hackable digital integrated circuits (ICs)
The British government is to data protection as Hurricane Katrina was to New Orleans property values. In the past we have covered the loss of data, including bank details, for 25 million people, and government intelligence documents seem to repeatedly get left on trains or in bars. Now, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced that a memory stick
Facebook is under attack with numerous phishing scams and it looks like the network effect is coming into full swing to allow the prolification of these scammers to spread virally. The worrying thing about these scams is that they are increasingly sophisticated.
Despite a recent high profile vulnerability that showed the net could be hacked in minutes, the domain name system -- a key internet infrastructure -- continues to suffer from a serious security weakness, thanks to bureaucratic inertia at the U.S. government agency in charge, security experts say
As Russian and Georgian troops fight on the ground, there's a parallel war happening in cyberspace. In recent weeks, Georgia's government Web sites have been besieged by denial-of-service attacks and acts of vandalism. Just like in traditional warfare, there's a lot of confusion about what's going on in this technological battle—nobody seems to know
A court order put a stop to a planned presentation at the Defcon hackers convention by three MIT students who found security flaws in the electronic ticketing system used by the mass transit authority in Boston. But the ruling reopened the schism in the IT security community over the issue of how vulnerabilities should be publicly disclosed.
Experts say the recent computer attacks on Georgia signal a new kind of cyber war. The U.S. is not fully prepared for a large-scale, coordinated attack, experts say. Such attacks can be mounted anonymously and cheaply from anywhere in the world. A cyberattack on the U.S. could hobble utilities, transportation and other infrastructure
