PrivacyScan, Privacy Protection for Your Mac, is now available on the Mac App Store. PrivacyScan protects online and offline privacy by shredding files that can be used to track your web browsing and computer usage. Going above and beyond United States DoD (Department of Defense) government standards, PrivacyScan’s shred feature...

In Facebook’s regulatory filing for an initial public offering of stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg included a letter to potential investors about the company’s thinking. He described it as a social mission to make the world more open and connected. He also discussed Facebook’s approach to culture and management: “As...

Currently being developed by DARPA researchers at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks are contact lenses that enhance normal vision by allowing a wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images without the need for bulky apparatus.  Instead of oversized virtual reality helmets, digital images are projected onto tiny full-color displays...

  Figuring out how to pack a processor and other sophisticated equipment into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge, but engineers at Sandia National Laboratories say the miniature guidance system they’ve developed is a breakthrough. A bullet that directs itself like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a...

Romanian police have arrested the hacker who gained notoriety for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computer systems. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, a 20-year-old who goes by the Internet name TinKode, allegedly revealed security holes and published information about SQL injection vulnerabilities he discovered. The Romanian Directorate for Investigating...

Ukrainian authorities have shut down a popular file-sharing website saying it violates copyright laws, officials said Wednesday. Interior Ministry Spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk said that Ex.ua was closed Tuesday after complaints from Microsoft, Adobe and other companies. The ministry said it has confiscated 200 servers that were used...

EA was forced to shut down its forums yesterday due to a hacker attack. The intruder “defaced” the forum’s front page, though it is not believed that any personal data was accessed or lost. EA thinks it has identified and repaired the vulnerability that permitted the actions and the forums are now back online. “As some of you...

A botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per day has been confirmed resurrected—more than four months after Microsoft celebrated its untimely demise. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab reported on Tuesday that Kelihos, a peer-to-peer botnet that also goes by the name Hlux, continues to spew spam in a variety of languages....

In one exchange, Megaupload managers fretted via Skype IM chat in 2007 that founder Kim Dotcom wasn’t “safe with his money” and “the current situation is a bit risky”, according to documents US authorities filed with a New Zealand court this month as part of their criminal pursuit of the embattled cyberlocker...