by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, PRIVACY, SECURITY
Cameras with Wi-Fi connectivity and a web server are supposed to make it easier to take pictures and upload photo files, but they aren’t very secure against attackers. As two team members at security company ERNW of Heidelberg demonstrated at the Troopers 13...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the new-rules dept. A new manual for cyber war has been compiled by international legal experts and published by NATO. The manual proposes that hospitals and dams should be off-limits for online warfare, and says that a conventional response is justified if an...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Cloud-based subscription service for Office 365 Home Premium offers good value and convenience Microsoft has been dishing out various flavors of Office 2013 since November 2012, when enterprises with volume license plans got first access to the finished software. In...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
RapidShare has announced a business model change that is causing panic among its non-premium users. After offering unlimited storage space to customers using its free service, the Swiss-based file-hoster is about to implement tough new limits. This Wednesday all free...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, Technicals
Black Hat Europe: Trend Micro’s SCADA experiment finds 17 targeted attacks, mainly from China, US, Laos An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals
Customers speculated on Twitter that the bank’s systems had been hacked Customers of JPMorgan Chase reported seeing zero balances in their accounts both online and on mobile, and speculated that the bank’s systems had been hacked into. The bank however...
