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Take the 5th? Not With Encrypted Hard Drives, Says Fed Judge

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Encrypting data on your computer may protect you from hackers and thieves, but it won’t protect you from crime investigators. That was the finding of a federal district court in Colorado Monday in a case involving a woman who refused to decrypt the files on her laptop for government prosecutors. The woman, Romona Fricosu, of…

Symantec Tells Customers to Pull the Plug on pcAnywhere Following Code Theft

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Symantec is sounding the alarm for users of its pcAnywhere remote access software following threats from a hacker. In some cases, said the security software maker, they might want to turn off and disable the application entirely. The hacker, who goes by the handle “YamaTough,” might be a member of the hacker collective Anonymous. The…

Anon Lets Fly With Symantec Code After Ransom Talks Collapse

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A hacker who was negotiating a ransom for stolen source code to a Symantec product released the data via peer-to-peer networks on Tuesday after negotiations fell through. The code is for security vendor Symantec’s pcAnywhere remote access software. Symantec had last month warned pcAnywhere users to observe best security practices and told them they might…

DDoS the Weapon of Choice for Hackers Driven by Politics, Not Profits

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Politics, rather than good old-fashioned theft, is increasingly the motivation of malicious hackers who attack websites using DDoS techniques. Arbor Networks has found that ideological hacktivism was the motivation behind most distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2011. Attacks for profit or competitive reasons still happen, but the rise of the political hacker is…

Google Wallet a Pushover for Pickpockets

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

News of two security flaws in Google Wallet, which lets smartphone owners pay for purchases through the devices, has caused some concern about the nascent mobile payment product. One works on rooted devices; the other works on any smartphone with the Google Wallet capability. All it needs is for someone to get hold of the…

Cracking Open Google Wallet

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Mobile shopping received a setback last week when security researchers discovered flaws in Google Wallet that could potentially expose its PIN to enterprising hackers. When Google introduced its wallet, it bragged that it was secure because transaction information was stored in a “secure element” in Wallet-enabled phones. What researchers at a security outfit called zVelo…

Hackers Jimmy Into Microsoft’s Indian E-Commerce Digs

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Malicious hackers attacked Microsoft’s India online retail store on Sunday evening, publishing obscured screenshots that appeared to contain personal user information. A Chinese hacker group known as “Evil Shadow Team” took responsibility for the breach, posting a message on Microsoft’s website stating that the “unsafe system will be baptized.” In what seemed to be a…

Google Zips Up Wallet

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the wake of two security flaws reported in its Google Wallet mobile payment system last week, Google has clamped down on the system and is scrambling to come up with a fix. One of the two flaws affects only rooted devices. But it’s the second that troubles Google more. That flaw lets anyone operating…

Random Public Crypto Keys Aren’t So Random

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Public key cryptography, a system used to secure online traffic, carries a significant flaw, a group of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers has found. Public key cryptography requires the sender and the receiver of a message to each have a digital key to encrypt and decrypt it, respectively. One of these keys is kept…

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