Floods in Thailand have rattled the hard drive supply chain from component suppliers to giants like Western Digital and ultimately PC and server makers will be affected, say analysts. Thailand’s disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work. Last ...

First State Super, the company that called the police and fired off legal threats when a security researcher notified it of vulnerabilities in its online funds management application, is reportedly softening its stance. According to Australia’s Financial Standard, the company has decided against further legal action, and instead is setting up ...

First State Super, the company that called the police and fired off legal threats when a security researcher notified it of vulnerabilities in its online funds management application, is reportedly softening its stance. According to Australia’s Financial Standard, the company has decided against further legal action, and instead is setting up ...

A research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology says it has discovered a keyboard keylogger attack that can be done through a compromised Apple iPhone. The attack relies on exploiting the iPhone accelerometer technology. "The accelerometer helps you figure out the orientation of the device," says Patrick Traynor, assistant professor ...

Apple on Wednesday issued much-anticipated updates for its Mac OS X and iOS mobile operating system, adding support for its new iCloud service and fixing a bevy of security flaws in the process. The new mobile operating system, iOS 5, contains approximately 98 security fixes, according to the company's  release notes. ...

The New York Stock Exchange's website experienced slowness for a brief period of time Monday afternoon, on the same day that the hacker group "Anonymous" called for an attack against the Big Board operator's site. There was some intermittent bandwidth saturation that prompted slowness on the site, according to a person ...

L33tdawg: Online registration is now closed but walk in registrations are still accepted (USD505 / MYR1599) - See you guys on the 12th @ InterContinental Kuala Lumpur! Security conference Hack In The Box returns to Kuala Lumpur this October 10-13. Besides the usual state-of-security talks, there will also be discussions ...

HackWEEKDAY, a 24-hour code off that will run alongside the 9th annual Hack In The Box Security Conference 2011 Kuala Lumpur (HITBSecConf2011KUL) will be offering a cash prize of US$1337 and recruitment opportunities for winning developers. This is the first weekday hackthon in Malaysia. Kicking off at 13:37 (GMT+8) on 12 ...

Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday. "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world ...

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), telecom executives are "overconfident in the effectiveness of their information security practices." That's the interpretation of the data from the 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey, which gathered the responses of more than 640 respondents in the telecommunications industry. The survey was conducted by PwC, CIO ...