Sony hasn’t yet recovered from the PlayStation Network outage, but it has already been hit with a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of an angry user. The suit comes a day after Sony admitted that personal information, including credit card …
Apple finally has officially responded to reports that iPhones store user location data in the form of an unusually revealing Q&A.
The company says it’s not actually tracking iPhone locations, instead it’s been compiling a crowdsourced database of cell tower …
Russian police rescued the kidnapped son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, in an operation that led to the arrest of five suspects.
The case involved one of Russia’s few stand-out successes when it comes to technology. The kidnapping …
Sony acknowledged today that its PlayStation Network online entertainment service has been brought down by an external intrusion, according to a blog post this evening.
The network has 70 million registered users and is Sony’s gateway to online entertainment on …
Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices have long been storing positions and timestamps in a hidden file on the user’s computer. That’s according to developers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, who plan to report their finding at the Where 2.0 conference …
The commercialization of society means advertising is popping up in places you’d least expect it — including web security.
NuCaptcha, aims to put captchas (which ask you to type in a word on the screen so you can prove you …
Bit9 has raised $12.5 million in a new round of funding for its enterprise security business.
The Waltham, Mass.-based company offers protection for endpoints, or the smartphones, tablets, and computers that connect to an enterprise network. Since those endpoints are …
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Sony has settled its lawsuit against hacker George “Geohot” Hotz for circumventing the security system of the PlayStation 3 video game console.
The lawsuit was controversial because it pitted Sony against hackers, who felt it should be more open with …
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This discussion about enterprise mobility is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at theVentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of the day, …
Antivirus vendor Symantec detected more than 286 million malware threats last year, signaling a big jump in the volume of automated cyber threats.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said in its 16th annual Internet Security Threat Report that threats are …
Epsilon, the world’s largest provider of permission-based email marketing, has suffered a huge data breach. That means hackers may have swiped customer data belonging to the world’s biggest brands.
Epsilon sends more than 40 billion emails a year on behalf …
A ton of web pages have been compromised by a huge malware attack dubbed LizaMoon.
The attack shows that malware is a bigger menace than ever and that many web sites aren’t protected.
More than 500,000 pages have been compromised …
IBM says it monitors 13 billion real-time security events every day for more than 4,000 clients. That’s about 150,000 events per second, which include anything from phishing attacks to false alarms.
Those events are part of a growing problem. IBM …
CertiVox, an information security startup, announced this morning that it has raised $1.46 million in funding.
CertiVox provides application and content security, as well as on-demand encryption key generation services. The company’s cloud-based infrastructure aims to satisfy the need for …
It used to be that cyber criminals hacked into accounts to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers. Now they’re moving upscale, building a huge underground economy around stealing more valuable intellectual property.
The Underground Economies report being released …
The servers of RSA, the security division of information storage giant EMC, have been breached and sensitive information from more than 40 million employees may have been compromised.
The information at risk is the two-factor authentication tokens used by employees …
Cyber security isn’t as sexy as social media among venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. But it’s a critical technology sector that has been gaining momentum with the economic recovery and the rising threats from cyber criminals.
That was the message …
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Apple announced its iPad 2 to much fanfare a few days ago. Most of the details were already know through leaks and informed speculation: a faster dual core processor with better graphics, a sleeker, lighter design, a better browser experience, …
Today’s funding announcements include software for children’s apps, easy advertising, malware protection and bionic knees:
Ruckus Media lands $3.5M for storybook apps: The developer of mobile apps geared toward children has raised a first round of funding led by Alsop …
