Apple’s App Store currently holds about 85,000 applications for you to download to your iPhone or iPod Touch and counting. Of course, about 84,900 of those programs consist of free and 99-cent games that your seven-year-old would probably find more compelling than you do. Here are some Security related Apps.
Microsoft announced that faulty security within Internet Explorer is to blame for the Google hacks originating in China last month, along with attacks against 20 other companies.
Online security juggernauts like McAfee Inc, Symantec Corp and Trend Micro might be seeing dollar signs soon as a result of Google’s current conflicts with China.
There’s nothing more annoying than realizing your Facebook profile has a bug and that it’s been writing the most bizarre sounding messages on all of your friends’ walls.
Luckily, the social networking giant is about to do something about it!
Encryption expert Karsten Nohl of Germany shocked everyone last week when he demonstrated research on how easily phone calls can be intercepted at Europe’s largest hacking conference in Berlin.
Twitter, a relatively small company with only 120 employees, is looking to expand this year.
Nearly $50 million dollars of funding was secured by Twitter from Insight Venture Partners last September for its new staffing spree, and among several of its new openings is a lookout for a network and infrastructure security manager.
Security Cam is a new app by developer Crowded Road to be used with Apple’s iPhone. The idea is to turn your iPhone into a spying device. As Macworld reports, the app offers two camera related functions: “Frequency capture, which lets you set a specific frequency for how often the iPhone’s camera will take a [...]
In February 2000, Canadian teenager named Mafiaboy used automated floods of incomplete Internet traffic to cause several sites – including Amazon, CNN, Dell, eBay, and Yahoo – to grind to a halt.

