Application Management

Anonymous and TeamPoison have teamed up on a hack of a UN agency and posting of a thousand usernames and passwords. The odd development is a joint threat of widespread theft and credit-card fraud against large corporate banks, a new tactic for both groups.

As customs and sometime trade-law enforcer for the U.S., ICE is supposed to stop the sale of counterfeit designer goods. Does the right to shut down an allegedly illegal retail operation also give it the right to shut down a whole web site and all the speech it contains?

'Buffy' might not be the best name for a phone from a company famous for sucking private data from customers more aggressively than The Slayer would have put up with even from her vampire boyfriend.

Dual-core USB makes Android portable even without the cell phone; BlueStackscan emulate Android on Windows so you can play Angry Birds anywhere.

Despite years of warnings, security agencies surprised when two water utilities are pwned almost simultaneously

Peter Kleissner extended his uber-rootkit kit with a version he'll release later this month in India, that bypasses the Windows 8 UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting legacy BIOS code.

The day before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was released armed men hijacked two vans filled with copies of the game. The release itself prompted at least one attempt at armed robbery and a bomb threat.

Experts disagree if the new Duqu remote access kit is the tool of a national intelligence agency or just a virus. It's possible the data-thieving, super-smart, oh-so-subtle virus is purely criminal, which would completely change the way we think about digital industrial espionage.

Stanford researchers definitively cracked the CAPTCHA tool that makes users prove they're human before using a site. CAPTCHA isn't dead, it's just oversimplified by most sites in a competition in which variety equals security, at least from spambots.

In Microsoft's vision of what computers will be like a decade or so from now, intelligence is built into everything -- eyeglasses, whiteboards, coffee tables memo-card-sized phones, to let you work or play (your choice) wherever, whenever you are.