Looks like the retail giant Best Buy has detected some malicious attempts to access its customer accounts, which is why it has issued a warning to its customers advising them to change their account passwords immediately. Best Buy issued the warning letter via its mass mail system to advise its customers, but somehow it left ...

The much known hacktivist group Anonymous loves to remain in news for one or another reason. Just last week when WikiLeaks started publishing a massive trove of emails related to Syria Files Project, the Anonymous group took the credit for having provided Syrian emails to Wikileaks. The hacktivist group released a statement on Peoples Liberation ...

As the conversation about Ouya–the $99 console is heating up on the web, so does its financial backing. The much talked about gaming console has managed to raise as much as $2.3 million from the backers, and working in full swing to bring the console on the shelves as soon as possible. The San Francisco-based ...

As the concern for cyber warfare increased more than ever, China has become a favorite flogging-horse in the security sphere. In fact, IP addresses from China and Chinese-code has been caught repeatedly part of corporate and state cyber espionage. India is the latest one to blame the Chinese hackers for breaking into the sensitive naval ...

If you are an owner of any of these two of Cisco home router selections–EA4500 and EA2700, I believe you must have experienced the latest update to the embedded software on your Cisco router. The firmware update limited router owners from administering the device themselves, resulting in lots of problems. Here’s what involved in this ...

We have been hearing the warnings pertinent to shutdown of Internet resources for some users on July 09, 2012, due to the DNSChanger malware attack. This is the last chance for companies and users to filter their systems from this malware as FBI may pull the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware. There ...

Malware, Trojans, and spyware are quite common in the mobile world, especially when we speak about the Android mobile operating system. While we have been listening to stories related to Android malware throughout this as well as last year, the latest news is the discovery of a devilish rootkit that uses the technique of clickjacking, ...

HuffingtonPost has recently released the HuffPost Pollster API that enables open access to all the polling data on the website. Software developers use this API to access information about public polls and publish the same on the Huffington Post. This will be of more interest for the public as the presential race is heating up, ...

DHS managed ICS-CERT, Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has recently released a report that informs a whopping increase in the number of infrastructure cyber attacks “cyber incidents” in the past few years. On its launch in 2009, ICS-CERT informed nine incident reports, out of which only four were confirmed as actual incidents. The ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a hot topic on for much of cybersecurity and a mainstay of Internet-based protests, and perhaps this is the reason that political parties have taken it up as their election manifesto! Yes, you heard it right. Dutch opposition party D66–a party that calls itself “a progressive liberal party”–has called ...