security

FBI issues Android warning

Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]

Password breach for Yahoo!

Source: NY Times Bits. SAN FRANCISCO — Another month, another major security breach. Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen on Wednesday. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted online the user names and passwords for what […]

Researchers crack online encryption system

Source: ComputerWorld.com.   An online encryption method widely used to protect banking, email, e-commerce and other sensitive Internet transactions is not as secure as assumed, according to a report issued by a team of U.S and European cryptanalysts. The researchers reviewed millions of public keys used by websites to encrypt online transactions, […]