Heâ??s been called a snitch, a traitor, even a war criminal. Heâ??s receiving death threats regularly. But Sunday Adrian Lamo took the stage at HOPE 2010 to defend his decisions, and then sat down with Gizmodo.
Former hacker, columnist and security consultant Adrian Lamo is one of a cast of characters in the story of WikiLeaks, [...]
Microsoft may have a tough time fixing the Windows shortcut vulnerability, a security researcher said today. A noted vulnerability expert, however, disagreed, and said Microsoft could deliver a patch within two weeks.
"The way Windows’ shortcuts are designed is flawed, and I think they will have a very hard time patching this," said Roel Schouwenberg, an [...]
It is old news that the U.S. lack the manpower needed when it comes to defending its own information infrastructure. Again and again, existing security experts that work for the government and its various agencies bemoan the lack of future "cyber warriors" that would lighten their burden and eventually step into their shoes when they [...]
Avoiding credit card fraud tied to identity theft is a task that may be becoming even more important, especially since the crime has become more popular over the years.
Recently, Visa announced it has launched best-practices standards for a process known as tokenization. The system replaces consumer information on payment records with random digits that hide [...]
Cybercriminals will have to find another way into your PC’s crown jewels. Adobe was preparing to fix a chief source of portable document format security vulnerabilities with the implementation of a "sandbox" in the next major revision of its popular Reader software.
A sandbox in industry parlance isolated software from the rest of the PC and [...]