Jeff Burt

The first smartphone running on an Intel processor will hit the market later this week, reportedly in India. Speaking to reporters and analysts in a conference call to announce the giant chip maker’s first-quarter financial results, Intel CEO Paul Otellini outlined the key points the company expects to hit as 2012 wears on€”particularly in the […]

New malware found in 15 Android apps in the official Google Play marketplace should serve as a cautionary tale to Android device users to pay attention to the permission requests that pop up as an app is downloading, according to a researcher at antivirus software vendor McAfee. McAfee€™s discovery of the data-stealing apps also is […]

Google, the Internet giant that made $3.4 billion on revenues of $10.65 billion during the first three months of 2012, was fined $25,000 by federal regulators for intentionally impeding an investigation into the company€™s collecting of personal data from WiFi while conducting its Street View project. In a 25-page finding issued April 13, officials with […]

Just as the Mac Flashback malware has begun to decline, security researchers at Kaspersky Lab, Sophos and Intego are talking about a new Trojan horse that targets Apple Macs using the same security flaw in Java that Flashback exploited. The new malware€”dubbed €œSabPub€ by Kaspersky and €œSabpab€ by Sophos and Intego€”is what the researchers are […]

A new security tool developed by Department of Energy engineers is designed to give security and IT administrators the ability to more quickly identify and respond to an issue on the network. Hone is the brainchild of Glenn Fink, a senior research scientist with the Secure Cyber Systems Group at the DOE€™s Pacific Northwest National […]

Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the exploit from unofficial Android app stores, according to a security software firm. In an April 12 post on SophosLabs€™ NakedSecurity blog, Graham Cluley said the Trojan horse masquerades itself as […]

The number of Macs infected with the Flashback malware might be abating, but the damage to Apple€™s reputation within the security community could take longer to fix. The company was criticized for being slow to offer the patch to fix the flaws in Java that made the Macs vulnerable, and even slower to offer a […]

Hewlett-Packard is warning enterprise customers that some of its ProCurve 5400zl series switches may have shipped with virus-infected compact flash cards. In a notice sent April 12, officials with HP€™s Software Security Response Team said that if a flash card with the malware is taken out of the switch and put into a PC, that […]

Intel officials reportedly will launch the first of their next-generation €œIvy Bridge€ chips April 23, moving up the expected date by almost a week. An unnamed source told Cnet that the first Ivy Bridge chips will be quad-core versions, which will be followed later by the most power-efficient chips aimed at such devices as Ultrabooks€”very […]

Apple has finally released a tool to detect and remove the Flashback malware that at one time infected as many as 600,000 Macs, or more than 1 percent of the Macs in use worldwide. The tool, released April 12, is part of a security update to Java, and enables Mac users to get rid of […]

Facebook officials, looking to quell ongoing concerns over the amount of personal information they store as the company draws nearer to its expected initial public offering, said they will let their more than 845 million users access more data about themselves. After privacy concerns were raised, Facebook in October 2010 let users download some information […]

The number of Apple Macs infected with the Flashback malware seems to be shrinking as Internet security software vendors roll out tools to detect and remove the exploit and run €œsinkhole€ operations to reduce its effectiveness. According to security vendor Symantec, the number of infected systems worldwide has shrunk to 270,000, less than half the […]