MacBook users are reporting that they are experiencing an issue after installing full disk encryption using File Vault. The problem manifests itself by automatically restarting the MacBook after it is turned on and restarted once already forcing the user to login twice before actually reaching their desk top.
Although the problem doesn’t seem wide-spread it is [...]
Barr is back in business. Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal, memorably had his corporate e-mail exposed to the world by Anonymous earlier this year after attempting to expose the group’s “leadership.” Based on our reporting, comedian Stephen Colbert memorably summed up the encounter: “To put this in hacker terms, Anonymous is a [...]
Intel revealed more details about the planned successors for its current-generation Sandy Bridge processors at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco this week. Coming in the second quarter of 2012 will be Ivy Bridge, a 22nm die-shrink “tick” to Sandy Bridge’s “toick.” Ivy Bridge will benefit from Intel’s new 3D tri-gate transistor technology, offering [...]
EU adoption of cloud services is being held back by inconsistent approaches to security in the laws of member states, Google has told the European Commission. The company’s submission is part of a public consultation that will help to shape future EU policy on a range of issues raised by cloud services, such as security [...]
Britain, embarrassed earlier this year by its apparent inability to block Rupert Murdoch from expanding his empire, is to examine new ways to measure the influence of media owners and whether limits should be set.
Murdoch’s News Corp withdrew a bid to buy the rest of pay-TV group BSkyB it did not already own in July, [...]
IT security in an increasingly complex threat environment needs to be more about management than technology performance, according to Eric Domage, program manager for IDC in Europe.
IT professionals need to stop buying security performance and move to buying and selling business performance, he told the IDC Security Conference 2011 in London. “Performance is not a [...]
Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises software component to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organization.
“Every SSL certificate comes with a shelf life, as they expire in one, two or three years,” says Amar Doshi, Symantec senior manager, [...]
Sophos says criminals will likely circumvent built-in anti-virus to be shipped with Microsoft Windows 8 next year.
Windows 8 will ship during the third quarter of 2012 and comes bundled with Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) that contains anti –viruses and -spyware tools. Microsoft on Tuesday released a preview of the new operating system to developers during [...]
StrikeForce Technologies, a small vendor of a keystroke encryption technology, is accusing Microsoft of not acting fast enough to fix a browser issue that it says is preventing StrikeForce’s technology from working with Internet Explorer 9.
The problem was first reported to Microsoft, and acknowledged by the company, in April, said George Waller, executive vice president [...]
The FBI is probing allegations that a number of Hollywood celebrities have been hacked, after semi-naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson leaked onto the internet, the agency said.
The photos, apparently taken by the actress herself, were published on gossip websites, while there were reports also of a hacked picture of Justin Timberlake, taken by actress Mila [...]