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If your company were hacked in a way that could directly hurt customers, would you announce the worst-case scenario so they could prep while you develop a solution? Or dribble out the news slowly? Symantec dribbled, first with SSL tokens, then source code, leaving customers at risk.

Attaching a clean, empty beer can to your WiFi router supposedly can improve wireless signal strength.

There is always the potential for drama and tragedy when sysadmins are expendable an even your IT systems are lying to each other.

Remember when Sony's firewall seemed more like a revolving door? It was actually more like a People Mover.

Data execution prevention, a major Windows security feature, has just been busted.

A new unpatched Windows bug surfaces; Microsoft hasn't patched the old one from May.

Voice-based authentication software company Telesign last week challenged hackers to break into the Web mail account of StrongWebmail CEO Darren Berkovitz and report back details from his June 26 calendar entry. Now, a group of security researchers claims to have done just that.

An old candy-bar style Nokia 1100 mobile phone has been used to break into someone's online bank account, affirming why criminals are willing to paying thousands of euros for the device.

Trust Digital, a firm that specializes in mobile security, demonstrates how to hack a smartphone with no more information than a phone number.

More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.

Nokia maintains there is no software problem that would make the 1100 model desirable to hackers.

A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualization software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows in a virtual machine, a security researcher says.