Is your bike 3G-enabled? Wi-MM thinks it should be, and the startup’s Bike+ BPU-100 anti-theft and cycling computer system is the way it hopes to help cyclists keep track of their metal steeds. Built in partnership with Verizon’s Innovation Center in San Francisco, Wi-MM – “Wireless Machine-to-Machine”, and not to be confused with the Google-acquired […]
When the redesigned iPhone 5s home button flex cable first appeared with a slightly different configuration from the cable for the iPhone 5, it was suggested to have been to make way for Touch ID. Apple’s Touch ID does indeed exist on the iPhone 5s – that’s fingerprint sensing technology for iDevices, if you did […]
Providing free e-mail addresses is big business for many large web companies such as Google and Yahoo. The web giants don’t make money off e-mail addresses or the e-mail service itself, but they do make huge amounts of money by selling ad space inside the free e-mail services. You may recall that Yahoo found itself […]
In May, Evernote began rolling out two-step verification to its Premium users, with a promise that as the system was implemented, it would eventually be made available for standard users as well. Fast forward a couple months, and such a time has come, with the company announcing that all of its users are now covered […]
The US National Security Agency is working to undermine the security of Tor, the open-source internet anonymity tool, using targeted Firefox hacks and keyloggers in a – so-far believed to be unsuccessful – attempt to peel open the clandestine system. Leaked NSA documents, including presentations titled “Tor Stinks”, were among the cache of information leaked […]
Numbers show that malware on smartphones is a bigger and bigger problem every year, and it’s not like the phone companies are making it any easier. Would it really kill them to include a native virus scanner in iOS or Android? This is where the Skorpion comes in.
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The United States government has filed charges against thirteen members of the hacking collective Anonymous, according to Reuters. The alleged members of the group were hit with a grand jury indictment today on charges of various hackery said to have taken place as part of Operation Payback. The indictment took place in a U.S. District […]
There’s been a bit of a security breach over at Adobe this week, with the company letting it be known that a cool 2.9 million Adobe IDs may have been involved in the incident. Adobe is taking action this afternoon with a series of precautions due to the serious nature of the incident, including resetting […]
This week as Silk Road is raided and billions in Bitcoins are taken in by the FBI, representatives for the secure internet system known as Tor have stepped up to suggest that the government did not break down security in Tor itself. Instead, they say, the FBI found out the Silk Road network and took […]
Earlier this week, Yahoo was accused of using change in its sofa cushions as compensation for reports of security exploits, but now the whole ordeal has generated enough buzz to bring about change for the internet pioneer. As it turns out, these small prizes (along with rewards such as t-shirts) were paid for out of pocket by Ramses Martinez, the director of Yahoo’s security team, who took a moment today to explain the company’s new — and far more lucrative — bounty program. Moving forward, Yahoo will reward security researchers with payments that range between $150 and $15,000 for issues that it deems “new, unique and / or high-risk.”
The company is still in the early stages of hammering out a new policy, but promises that payments will be determined “by a clear system based on a set of defined elements that capture the severity of the issue.” Yes, these amounts still pale in comparison to the massive sums that Microsoft recently offered, but researchers now have reasonable incentive to inform Yahoo of the exploits, rather than sell them on the black market. According to Martinez, Yahoo’s revised policy will be available by the end of the month, and as a nice gesture, its new reward structure will retroactively apply to all bugs submitted from July 1st onward.
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