The government of India may reach an agreement with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in which officials fearing security threats may get access to the e-mails and instant messages transmitted between owners of the hand-held devices, Reuters reported.
Chipmaker Intel surprised Wall Street Thursday with a deal to purchase security software maker McAfee. Intel said that the acquisition highlights the fact "that security is now a fundamental component of online computing."
Saudi Arabia has ordered its mobile operators to stop providing services for Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones by Friday. The news comes days after the United Arab Emirates said it would halt BlackBerry data services in October.
In a highly anticipated demonstration at the Black Hat computer-security conference in Las Vegas, IOActive director Barnaby Jack hacked into two ATMs using two different techniques. He's found a flaw in every ATM he's looked at, he told an applauding audience.
Just a week after Boeing bought cybersecurity company Argon ST, the aerospace and defense giant says it's buying another cybersecurity company, Narus, which has developed a system to protect Internet networks.
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More than a year after embarrassing, but minor, security lapses, social-networking phenomenon Twitter settled its FTC charges. In an interesting twist, Twitter agrees to be barred for 20 years from misleading users about how secure their data is.
