Symantec confirmed late Thursday that hackers compromised some source code relating to two discontinued enterprise security products. The code belonged to Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Antivirus 10.2, which are four and five years old, respectively. Symantec's consumer security line, Norton, was not affected. "Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure ...

Symantec confirmed late Thursday that hackers compromised some source code relating to two discontinued enterprise security products. The code belonged to Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Antivirus 10.2, which are four and five years old, respectively. Symantec's consumer security line, Norton, was not affected. "Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure ...

When Mark Surman was growing up, he connected to the Web using a dial-up modem that squeaked and buzzed its way to a modest connection. The Web he used was simple, and hardly error-free. Using the Internet was hard, and that made its users think about the way it worked. Nowadays ...

The Anonymous hacktivist collective dropped its Operation Hiroshima bomb on New Year's Day, and despite its success in pulling off a large-scale, wide-reaching document dump, the event has received very little coverage by the mainstream media. Known best by its Twitter hashtag #OpHiroshima, the dump was an organized attempt to "dox," ...

The Anonymous hacktivist collective dropped its Operation Hiroshima bomb on New Year's Day, and despite its success in pulling off a large-scale, wide-reaching document dump, the event has received very little coverage by the mainstream media. Known best by its Twitter hashtag #OpHiroshima, the dump was an organized attempt to "dox," ...

A security blogger searched some leaked chat logs for traces of the Cutwail botnet operator - and found them

An attacker within range of the wireless access point may be able to brute force the WPS PIN and retrieve the password for the wireless network, change the configuration of the access point, or cause a denial of service.

Or boyfriend! Password sharing is a lynchpin of intimacy in the 21st century—and it can be complete nightmare unless you're savvy. So when should you do it? And for what? In general, don't even think about giving up that super-secure string of 64 randomly-generated characters until you have a real relationship ...

The company says phone makers created the insecure logs that a developer found. Device analysis suggests problem is limited to particular US carriers, and a free software detector can identify the presence of Carrier IQ's application

As 2011 comes to a close, The H has had a look back on what our most read features and news items were for the year and with the mix of open source and security that is the trademark of The H we think you'll find it a different holiday ...