SECURITY

Ever wondered how to remain anonymous or circumvent internet censorship while dealing with sensitive issues online? Electronic Frontier Foundation, patron of online civil liberties, has launched the Tor Challenge, a project aimed at protecting the anonymity of internet users.

The United States is warning that a cyber attack -- presumably if it is devastating enough -- could result in real-world military retaliation.

Ever wondered how to remain anonymous or circumvent internet censorship while dealing with sensitive issues online? Electronic Frontier Foundation, patrons of online civil liberties, today launched the Tor Challenge, a project aimed at protecting the anonymity of internet users. Tor is a volunteer system that consists of servers spread across the globe, and a downloadable software that enables access to the network.

After weeks of dithering, Apple has finally released a security update to remove Mac Defender malware and other known variants.

President Obama' announcement that he was nominating Gen. Martin Dempsey to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff continued a broad remake of his defense team that will include a new Secretary of Defense and a new Central Intelligence Agency chairman.

Linux Kernel, an operating system used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems, is all set to launch its newest version Kernel 2.8.0 or to be named Kernel 3.0.

The website of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and hackers have also posted a hoax story claiming that rapper Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand.

Which is more secure: Google's Wallet or the one in your pocket?

Contrary to popular belief American rap start Tupac is alive and well after being discovered in New Zealand, a number of media reporter.

The Public Broadcasting Service web site was defaced over the weekend with the hackers posting fake stories about Tupac Shakur being alive and in New Zealand.

Wake Forest University, North Carolina, professor of Computer Science Errin Fulp, and his team of scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, are developing an army of ‘digital ants’ which will be set loose into the power grid of a computer to discover viruses in the system, a report in the university website said.

At least 15 demonstrators were killed by Yemen security forces in the southern city of Taiz on Monday, Reuters reported.

The U.S. government's biggest information technology provider Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) is the latest to fall victim to hackers, with its computer systems being hit by a network security transgression.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) apologized on Monday for an air strike that killed about 14 civilians in the south-west of the country.

Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has been linked to a cyber-attack on a firm which supplies coded security coupons to users, said a report in The New York Times.

The Japanese auto major Honda Motor Company has admitted that an estimated 283,000 customers' info at Honda Canada has been breached.

The extension passed but the question lingers: What were they trying to warn us about?

Security experts say Google Wallet security is a mixed bag.

According to Google website, Google Wallet is designed and engineered to enable safe payments, going beyond the security level of traditional wallets and cards.

Two Democratic senators won the promise Thursday of a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing into what they say is a secret and expansive Justice Department interpretation of the information collection the Patriot Act allows.