Warning China to put an end to cyber-attacks, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said the US will take any measures necessary to protect itself from intrusions. Large companies and businesses have expressed concerns over recent cyber-attacks as proprietary technologies and classified information may have been leaked "through cyber intrusions emanating from China.” "The international community cannot affo...

Hackers got their hands on US celebrities’ finance details and posted them on a dedicated website suspected to be tied to Russia. Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears were among the stars that had private data displayed for all to see. Hackers also targeted top government officials including US Vice-President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, form...

A new Facebook page is attempting to trick the curly-haired masses on the world’s most popular social site with an offer of free hair straighteners, according to Hoax Slayer. The scammers apparently aim to gather enough likes and shares so they can sell the page to other scammers, without ever straightening a single curly hair. “We have got 569 GHD Hair straighteners that can't be sold because they have bee...

Malware developers targeting Google’s Android platform are reportedly seeking new ways to establish trustworthy delivery channels for their creations. Cyber-criminals are listening to the old business adage that “one has to spend money to make money.” According to a report by tech journalist Brian Krebs, an Android virus writer is offering as much as $100 for a verified developer account tied to a dedicated...

Four third-party applications were removed yesterday from BlackBerry World over privacy concerns. According to a note from the phone manufacturer, the four applications were not malicious, but “forgot” to inform the user that they were uploading the user’s contact list, network identifiers, device identifiers, and the smartphone location to the application vendor’s server. The applications in question inclu...

Deutsche Telekom has launched a website that reports attacks on honeypot systems in real time. Russia is the top country under cyber-attack, followed by Taiwan, Germany and Ukraine, according to a press release. The online portal www.sicherheitstacho.eu is based on more than 90 sensors worldwide that act as early warning systems. More than 200,000 new versions of viruses, trojans and worms appear every day,...

Facebook users are sharing more personal information even as privacy concerns grow, according to the Carnegie Mellon University. A seven-year study has found evidence that the amount of information people publish on the social network changed over time, depending on the features Facebook introduced. From 2005 to 2009, users were more careful with privacy settings, progressively decreasing the amount of pers...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a whitepaper arguing that local mobile companies should start focusing on developing an independent mobile operating system to escape dependency on Google’s Android. Recognizing that a new mobile OS might not compete with Apple, Google or Microsoft in terms of technical know-how, the document strongly encourages local mobile developers and ma...

Google released new figures detailing the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) requests coming from the FBI and other agencies that request user information when conducting national security investigations. In  2009, 2011, and 2012 there were between 1,000 and 1,999 NSL’s on user accounts, while in 2011 there were between 2,000 and 2,999 requests. Although Google did not post absolute numbers as they ...

What started as a small-scale DDoS attack on a computer server wiped out a chunk of the Internet managed by DDoS protection company CloudFlare. “The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy. During the outage, anyone accessing CloudFlare.com or any site on CloudFlare's network would have received a DNS error,” writes CloudFlare co-founder and CEO...