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US man sold products allowing thousands to steal Internet service
An Oregon man has been convicted of seven courts of wire fraud for helping thousands of people steal Internet service, the US Department of Justice said.
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Malware increasingly using DNS as C&C channel to avoid detection
The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday.
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Xirrus revamps its Wi-Fi arrays for the enterprise
Xirrus has revamped its Wi-Fi arrays, making the cake-like housing thinner, adding optional modular 450Mbps 802.11n radios, beefing up the on-board network processors, and boosting range and signal quality with a new directional antenna design.
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Google faces wiretapping charges over Street View Wi-Fi sniffing
A federal judge has declined to dismiss charges against Google that it allegedly violated the Federal Wiretap Act when it collected personal data from Wi-Fi networks.
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New Microsoft wireless keyboard gets 128-bit encryption
Microsoft has upgraded the weak encryption found on today?s mass-market wireless keyboards with a new design that uses 128-bit AES to secure communication to and from the PC.
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Firesheep not evil, says creator
The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it's no one's business what software people run on their computers.
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Mozilla: No 'kill switch' for Firesheep to disable add-on
Mozilla today said it wouldn't or couldn't, pull a "kill switch" to disable the Firesheep add-on that lets anyone steal log-on and account access information to Facebook, Twitter and other major Web services.
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Flying drone W.A.S.P. sniffs out vulnerable WiFi networks
A pair of hackers have created the ultimate gadget for finding unsecured WiFi connections, one made with a surplus US Army drone. "Mike" and "Rich", also known as Rabbit Hole, created the autonomous W.A.S.P (WiFi Aerial Surveillance Platform) to fly around and find people's unsecured Internet connections.
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Mozilla pulls password stealer add-on
Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password stealing add-on slipped into Firefox's extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected.
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Google plans to patent WiFi snooping technology?
Google's secret WiFi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged.
