An undetectable Hardware Trojan is reality: A Team of researchers conducted a study on a stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans, an insidious menace that could have a dramatic impact on production processed of chips in every sector. The team composed by researchers Georg T. Becker, Francesco Ragazzoni, Christof Paar and Wayne P. Burleson described in a paper how […]

Edward Snowden’s Face, Coming to a Bus Near You?: NSA leaker Edward Snowden may be in Russia, but his face could soon be rolling through the streets of D.C. The Partnership for Civil Justice, a D.C.-based legal nonprofit that has represented Occupy Wall Street protesters, is raising money to buy wraparound ads on D.C. buses that […]

FDA Sends Warning Letter To 23andMe: The Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to stop selling its saliva collection kits for its personal genome service. 23andMe is a health and ancestry DNA startup, founded by Anne Wojcicki in 2006. For $99, you receive a spit kit, provide 23andMe with a saliva sample, and send […]

Embracing big brother: How facial recognition could help fight crime: From fighting terrorism to processing payments in the blink of an eye, facial recognition is set to change our ideas on privacy. A number of exciting developments in the field could even push its toughest critics to reconsider. “The more people get out of it, […]

Former FBI agent in charge in Buffalo to be honored Monday: Peter J. Ahearn, who was special agent in charge of Buffalo FBI operations during a number of events in the past decade, will be presented the Founders Award of the FBI Buffalo Citizens Academy Alumni Association at its annual meeting Monday. Ahearn is being […]

Vodafone to launch NFC mobile wallet across Europe: Mobile network operator Vodafone’s NFC mobile wallet is going live today in Spain, will be available in Germany in mid-December and expand to the Netherlands, UK and Italy in spring 2014. Vodafone Wallet works with a range of NFC phones as well as with NFC tags that […]

OS X Hardening: Securing a Large Global Mac Fleet: OS X security is evolving: defenses are improving with each OS release but the days of “Macs don’t get malware” are gone. Recent attacks against the Java Web plugin have kindled a lot of interest in hardening and managing Macs. So how does Google go about […]

German politicians to get encrypted phones: The interior ministry of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have, Bild newspaper said, decided on “urgent” guidelines for ministers’ and top ranking officials’ mobile phones. The parties are currently in coalition negotiations over forming Germany’s next government. Under the new government politicians […]

Virgin Galactic to accept bitcoin: Branson: Billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson announced on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday that his commercial space flight venture will accept bitcoin as payment. He called it “a new exciting currency.” Virgin Galactic accepted its first purchase with bitcoin from a flight attendant in Hawaii. Branson—an early bitcoin investor himself—said the […]

Report on commodities value in the cyber criminal underground market: Researcher Joe Stewart of Dell SecureWorks and independent researcher David Shear provided an interesting overview of hacking services and stolen data cost in the black market specifically in this period. The two cyber experts infiltrated 15 different underground forums to collect the pricing information, four […]