Security

Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

Researchers propose foiling password thieves by salting password databases with red herrings called 'honeywords.'

McAfee shares some tips on creating hack-proof passwords.

A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why.

Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.

More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information.

Cisco, which wants to expand its clout into the industrial networks used by power-generation utilities to support the electric grid, today announced an expansion of its "smart grid" portfolio with ruggedized and low-latency switches and other equipment intended for use in electric-power distribution systems.

The Human Rights Watch isn't the only international organization with a vendetta against killer automatons. According to a recent United Nations report, the U.N. is already working to stem the development of killer robots.

Chinese cyberespionage activities are fueling a rapid modernization of the country's defense and high tech industries, the Pentagon said in an unusually candid assessment of China's military and security developments last year.

AutoIt, a scripting language for automating Windows interface interactions, is increasingly being used by malware developers thanks to its flexibility and low learning curve, according to security researchers from Trend Micro and Bitdefender.