Consumers are getting more aware of the risks involved with giving away personal data to an service online. Financial information is among the top things customers want protected more securely than anything else. Even if things such as credit card and banking information is adequately protected, scammers can still make do with email address and passwords. Since so many people use one password for everything, a data hack can lead to an enormous amount of frustration. viaForensics, a security firm, tested many popular iOS and Android applications with its appWatchdog software and found many of them to mishandle customer information.

Here we go again. Another Sony property has been hacked. This time the victim is Sony Pictures, and LulzSec has taken credit for the break-in. LulzSec also hacked into the Sony Music Japan website at the end of May. Do you want to know how LulzSec managed to pull off the hack? It used a SQL injection tool. This is the same method that was successful in every Sony website attack we’ve reported on over the past few weeks.

Even after the press conference on Sunday, Sony has a few things to clear up regarding the PSN and Qriosity hacks. In yet another blog post by Patrick Seybold, we’re reassured that some of the worst parts of the attacks aren’t as bad as we may have thought. In his post, Seybold claims that there more »

Vodafone just joined the app store universe. Their new service is called Vodafone360 and it aims to put together your contact information in one place, allow you to purchase digital content like music, and features apps. One of the apps Vodafone has already pushed is “Keeper Mobile,” which is a free app for Vodafone that more »

There are plenty of good practices to pick up when working with a computer. However, it’s really easy to fall into traps by being lazy. Take a look at this list. Do you have lousy tech habits? The first step is identifying your problem. Next, is finding a solution.

The alleged takeover of the City by the Bay may sound totally rare, but, unfortunately, it has happened before that disgruntled employees take to modern technology as a means for revenge.

City tech employee Terry Childs, allegedly modified the city system so that he was the only one with top level clearances. The city is still in a tizzy trying to regain control of their new fiber optic municipal network that handles everything from the mayor’s email to electronic court records. Childs, who was arrested on Sunday, is still being held on $5 million bail, after allegedly refusing to hand over the passwords. He at first did supply some, but they turned out to be bogus.

It isn’t even clear why he did what he did, although it’s been said that in days leading up to his arrest, his behavior towards his colleagues was becoming erratic. A new security chief had been brought in to oversee the group’s security, and over the past few weeks some evidence of tampering had been found. It was escalated to the police, who in turn brought in their own forensics team to investigate their network.