Commercial Quantum Cryptography Satellites Coming
Canadian team wants to take the cheap microsatellite route to uncrackable global communications
The Hacked Tweet That Took Down Wall Street
A rogue AP tweet roils Wall Street; algorithmic trading on machine readable news partially to blame
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This Week in Cybercrime: Tax-related ID Thefts Hit 1.8M in 2012
Plus: Who is behind the South Korea cyberattack? And more warnings on infrastructure vulnerabilities
Would the Mob Really Break Your Virtual Kneecaps With Counterfeit Chips?
Apparently, the next chip security threat could come from organized crime, says IOActive
This Week in Cybercrime: What Do We Know about the South Korean Cyberattack?
Plus: BitTorrent sites on the hook for copyright infringement
This Week in Cybercrime: Hackers More Dangerous than Al Qaeda?
Plus: U.S. cyberattack monitor hacked and Android apps steal data
Embedded Anti-Malware Defends Against Cisco IP Phone Hack
Software “symbiotes” signal attacks on embedded systems
UPDATE: Anonymous Fails to Stop the State of the Union Speech
A prominent fail for the hacktivist group
“Programmer Bob”: Latter-Day Tom Sawyer or Massive Security Risk?
“Bob” outsources his programming assignments to China while he plays at work
Phreaking Out Ma Bell
How a buccaneering young engineer built the little blue box that broke into the biggest network in the world
SkyDe Software Sends Hidden Messages in Skype Calls
It's all about interpreting the silence
Android in My Rice Cooker: Gateway to Future Cyber Home Invasion?
Internet of Things inadequate security could have future nasty unintended consequences
Computers: It's Time to Start Over
Computer scientist Robert Watson, putting security first, wants to design with a “clean slate”
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This Week In Cybercrime: Mass Transit Surveillance Systems Keep Ears and Eyes on You
Plus: Facebook helps law enforcement capture cybercrooks who targeted the site’s users, and hackers remotely took over a company’s industrial control system
Cybercriminals Hold Australian Medical Clinic Electronic Patient Records Hostage
"They literally got in, hijacked the server, and then ran their encryption software"
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
Nationwide Mutual, Clipped for 1 Million Customer Records, Can’t Promise It Won’t Happen Again
Company promises merely to “enhance” its defenses
A Quantum Dot First: Electron-Photon Entanglement
A new way to entangle quantum bits made of light and matter could be a boost for quantum communication
Did the U.S. Hack the Office Computers of Then-President Sarkozy of France?
Washington and Paris neither confirm nor deny
Verizon Video Confirms Telecom Cable Damage From Sandy
The company says it's time to upgrade its copper cables to fiber
This Week in Cybercrime: What Threats Will Computer Users Face in 2013?
Plus: Smart cards are vulnerable to online attacks, a court database-and-records theft was an inside job, and your government might already know everything you’ve ever done on or sent from your computer
Network Damage After Sandy Through The Eyes of A Disaster Forensics Expert
Alexis Kwasinski takes IEEE Spectrum on a tour of the strike zone
NASA Suffers “Large” Data Breach Affecting Employees, Contractors, and Others
Stolen laptop contained records of sensitive personally identifiable information
This Week in Cybercrime: Chevron Bitten by Stuxnet, SEC Embarrassed by Security Breach
South Carolina now thinks encrypting sensitive taxpayer data is good security practice
Coca-Cola Disrespects Its Investors By Not Telling Them About Massive 2009 Computer Breach
Company executives didn’t know IT systems were compromised until FBI told them
This Week in Cybercrime: Good news! Citibank Thieves Get Caught; Cellular Carriers Launch Stolen Phone Database
And more good news! South Carolina gets sued for massive data breach; Russian cybercriminal traps himself
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Is It Time For a Computer Industry Do-Over?
Peter Neumann, with DARPA backing, reinvents the personal computer with security in mind
Autistic Hacker Won't Be Extradited to U.S.
UK government gives Gary McKinnon a reprieve on human rights grounds
Police States and Domestic Terrorism
U.S. security agencies are collecting billions of phone calls, texts, and e-mails. Is there an upside?
U. S. Senate Report: DHS Counterterrorism Fusion Centers Often Produce “Crap” Intel
DHS says Senators are uninformed and report is "misleading"
The Real Story of Stuxnet
How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran’s nuclear-fuel enrichment program
This Week in Cybercrime: Are Strong Passwords Only for Your Important Accounts?
Plus: Eavesdrop-ready Internet is a disaster waiting to happen