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(AP)—Cubans lined up Tuesday to try out computers newly wired to the World Wide Web as authorities began offering Internet at more than 100 public access points around the island. http://phys.org/news289584585.html Technology Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:40:02 EST news289584585 Online deals service LivingSocial said Friday that its website was hacked, and the personal data of more than 50 million customers may have been affected. http://phys.org/news286220280.html Technology Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:38:05 EST news286220280 Microsoft is offering enhanced security for its email, storage and other services. http://phys.org/news285428116.html Technology Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:03 EST news285428116 Here are some answers to questions about perhaps the biggest cyberattack ever, which recently targeted Spamhaus, an anti-spam group based in Geneva and London. It ended up slowing down or blocking access to numerous Internet sites. http://phys.org/news283777153.html Technology Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:20:01 EST news283777153 (Phys.org)—The weakest link in many computer networks is a gullible human. With that in mind, Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to recognize potential targets of nefarious emails and put them on their guard. http://phys.org/news279809510.html Technology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:52:06 EST news279809510 The latest Google smartphone sold out in the some countries within an hour of its release on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news272042511.html Electronics Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:22:06 EST news272042511 (AP)—The Federal Trade Commission is proposing to fine a unit of Warner Music Group Corp. $1 million for violating a child privacy law in the operation of fan websites for artists including Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Rihanna. http://phys.org/news268545059.html Technology Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:51:04 EST news268545059 If you're one of the nearly 70 million people who subscribed to the Kodak Gallery photo-sharing site, here's some bad news: It has officially closed. http://phys.org/news260726313.html Technology Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:58:49 EST news260726313 (AP) — In yet another change that upset users, Facebook has replaced the email addresses users chose to display on their profile pages with (at)facebook.com addresses. http://phys.org/news259895540.html Technology Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:12:28 EST news259895540 British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing a growing backlash from within his own party over plans to extend the government's powers to monitor people's email exchanges and website visits. http://phys.org/news252578357.html Technology Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:43:06 EST news252578357 (AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission says that an online game site called RockYou has reached a settlement with the government over a hacking attack that exposed email addresses and passwords from 32 million users. http://phys.org/news252091991.html Technology Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:33:16 EST news252091991 Britain's biggest police force apologised on Thursday to more than 1,100 victims of crime after admitting it had "inadvertently" shared their email addresses with other victims. http://phys.org/news247390820.html Technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:40:25 EST news247390820 Email addresses and passwords belonging to British, US and NATO officials were posted online following the hacking of a US intelligence analysis firm over Christmas, the Guardian daily reported Monday. http://phys.org/news245308263.html Technology Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:11:12 EST news245308263 The online piracy group Anonymous hacked into the Belgian website of industrial giant ArcelorMittal on Friday, posting a video to protest the closure of two blast furnaces in Belgium. http://phys.org/news245076593.html Technology Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:50:02 EST news245076593 A group of Saudi hackers calling themselves group-xp published details of more than 6,000 Israeli credit cards online in the second such incident in three days, army radio reported on Friday. http://phys.org/news245065449.html Technology Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:44:14 EST news245065449 Online "hacktivist" group Anonymous has released a trove of email addresses and credit card numbers stolen from the website of intelligence analysis firm Stratfor and promised further attacks. http://phys.org/news244488778.html Technology Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:33:12 EST news244488778 (AP) -- In today's digital age, it's easy to send out an email by mistake - even for a company that's in the business of communication. http://phys.org/news244356850.html Technology Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:54:20 EST news244356850 When most people think about bequeathing their belongings, it's the obvious: the house, the car, bank accounts, the sentimental family mementos. http://phys.org/news243517776.html Technology Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:50:01 EST news243517776 The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said Monday. http://phys.org/news241687597.html Technology Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:26:44 EST news241687597 (AP) -- A Northern California physicians network says a computer stolen last month contains personal information on more than 4 million patients dating back to 1995. http://phys.org/news240723943.html Technology Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:46:01 EST news240723943 Finland is being targeted by a cyber activism campaign, police acknowledged Tuesday, after an apparent local branch of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous said it had hacked some 500,000 email accounts. http://phys.org/news240574060.html Technology Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:07:47 EST news240574060 Finnish police on Monday called on users of online services to change their passwords after nearly 15,000 user names and passwords were stolen and published on the Internet. http://phys.org/news240470948.html Technology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:29:13 EST news240470948 A cyberattack was launched on an organization of Japanese defense contractors in an attempt to steal confidential information on the nation's defense industry, according to sources. http://phys.org/news238128709.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:20:01 EST news238128709 US authorities have obtained a secret court order to force search giant Google and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a volunteer for whistleblower website WikiLeaks, a report said. http://phys.org/news237435741.html Technology Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:22:39 EST news237435741 (AP) -- A growing number of critics are complaining that a San Francisco Bay area transit agency acted illegally when it cut off wireless service in an effort to stifle a protest. http://phys.org/news232640262.html Technology Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:18:02 EST news232640262 (AP) -- San Francisco's mass transit system prepared for renewed protests Monday, a day after hackers angry over blocked cell phone service at some transit stations broke into a website and posted company contact information for more than 2,000 customers. http://phys.org/news232633278.html Technology Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:21:45 EST news232633278 (AP) -- Hackers broke into a website for San Francisco's mass transit system Sunday and posted contact information for more than 2,000 customers, the latest showdown between anarchists angry at perceived attempts to limit free speech and officials trying to control protests that grow out of social networking and have the potential to become violent. http://phys.org/news232597410.html Technology Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:23:47 EST news232597410 A US man who hacked into his neighbors' Wi-Fi network and tried to frame them with child pornography and threatening emails to the US vice president has been sentenced to 18 years in jail. http://phys.org/news229746366.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:00:01 EST news229746366 Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. http://phys.org/news229658685.html Technology Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:05:00 EST news229658685 The Washington Post said Thursday that a hacker had gained access to nearly 1.3 million email addresses and user IDs on its online jobs section. http://phys.org/news229322503.html Technology Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:41:54 EST news229322503