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 ...

Harvard University's home page was hacked earlier today in what was described as a "sophisticated" attack that briefly defaced the site with a message accusing the U.S. of supporting the uprising against Syria's president. Accompanying an image of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was a message that said "SyRiAn ELeCTronic ArMy WeRe ...

The same group that hacked NBC News' Twitter account on September 9 and sent tweets about a bogus attack on Ground Zero apparently grabbed hold of USA Today's Twitter feed today and fired off a clutch of messages. The taunting tweets from someone claiming to be The Script Kiddies asked if ...

A new set of terms and conditions for OnStar, the General Motors-supported safety and connectivity system, is generating privacy concerns among some subscribers, many of whom have been historically sensitive to the potential for abuse. For years, some G.M. car and truck owners have posted elaborate instructions to Internet forums ...

A leaked photo has prompted speculation that Apple plans to launch a new iPhone 4S at the same time as it outs its upcoming flagship iPhone 5 in October. The new image, which has surfaced on Chinese blogging site Weibo, shows a logic board with an ARM-based A5 processor in place ...