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(AP) -- The White House has tapped a corporate cyber security expert and former Bush administration official to lead the effort to shore up the country's computer networks and better coordinate with companies that operate 80 percent of those critical systems. http://www.physorg.com/news180683817.html Technology Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:03:20 EST news180683817 (AP) -- South Korea's military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea. http://www.physorg.com/news180345168.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:53:15 EST news180345168 (PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and privacy has found that software flaws in embedded devices like routers, webcams and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone adapters are far more widespread than previously known. http://www.physorg.com/news175788913.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:50:01 EST news175788913 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173421568.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:50:04 EST news173421568 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer researchers at UNSW and NICTA have achieved a breakthrough in software which will deliver significant increases in security and reliability and has the potential to be a major commercialisation success. http://www.physorg.com/news173086905.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:42:38 EST news173086905 (PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed approach to cyber security needs a dramatic overhaul -- and courts should lead the way to reform, argues Edward Imwinkelried, a professor of law at the University of California, Davis, and one of the nation's leading experts on scientific evidence. http://www.physorg.com/news171043581.html Other Sciences Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:17:16 EST news171043581 (AP) -- Nestled near a row of sultry, silvery-green palm trees and a 205-foot-long infinity pool, room 1508 at the National Hotel on South Beach is a portrait of Art Deco luxury. It is also where, on May 7, 2008, federal agents seized two computers, $22,000 in cash and a Glock 9 gun from a man known on the Internet as "soupnazi." http://www.physorg.com/news169958749.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:46:36 EST news169958749 (PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days. http://www.physorg.com/news160749834.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 13:44:23 EST news160749834 (AP) -- Beijing has temporarily averted a trade clash with Washington by scaling back a demand for foreign suppliers of computer security technology to disclose how their products work. http://www.physorg.com/news160276365.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:13:18 EST news160276365 The Conficker worm's creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called "scareware." http://www.physorg.com/news160130587.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:02 EST news160130587 (AP) -- The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. http://www.physorg.com/news158517032.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:31:36 EST news158517032 Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security software to trick people into installing treacherous programs on machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158396026.html Technology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:54:13 EST news158396026 The US Department of Homeland Security released a tool on Monday to detect whether a computer is infected by the Conficker worm. http://www.physorg.com/news157655763.html Technology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:17:21 EST news157655763 (AP) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission says it has dropped its lawsuit against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel which accused him of illegally tampering with stock options. http://www.physorg.com/news156715215.html Technology Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:27 EST news156715215 Computer security specialists warn that Facebook users have been hit with a series of data-stealing attacks in the past week as cyber crooks increasingly stalk social-networking websites. http://www.physorg.com/news155288782.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:46:41 EST news155288782 Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at University of California, Davis and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against self-propagating infectious programs known as worms. http://www.physorg.com/news151082993.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:53 EST news151082993 Hackers beware. A Rochester Institute of Technology professor knows how to thwart sophisticated and determined intruders from stealing personal and corporate information. His secret? Anchor your online activities to the physical world. http://www.physorg.com/news147546023.html Technology Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:00:23 EST news147546023 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. http://www.physorg.com/news144337532.html Technology Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:45:32 EST news144337532 In recent years cell phones and PDAs -"Personal Digital Assistants" -have exploded in power, performance and features. They now often boast expanded memory, cameras, Global Positioning System receivers and the ability to record and store multimedia files and transfer them over wireless networks -in addition to the cell phone system -using WiFi, infrared and Bluetooth communications. Oh, yes, and make phone calls. http://www.physorg.com/news134907315.html Technology Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:15:15 EST news134907315