It said the North fired several shells into the sea near the South Korean-controlled Baengnyeong Island off the countries’ western coast. On Tuesday, North Korea declared a no-sail zone in waters off its coast, media reports said. South Korea’s ministry of defence said it was checking the reports, AFP said. The North fired into waters [...]

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Computer scientists in Britain have uncovered weaknesses in electronic passports issued by the US, UK, and some 50 other countries that allow attackers to trace the movements of individuals as they enter or exit buildings. The so-called traceability attack is the only exploit of an e-passport that allows attackers to remotely track a given credential [...]

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Google has updated its browser toolbar after the application was caught tracking urls even when specifically “disabled” by the user. In a Monday blog post, Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the [...]

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According to Owen, the thefts were enabled by the weak authentication measures employed by the bank. In addition to usernames and password, the only other authentication the bank required was for users to register the systems they used for online banking transactions. However, that measure was clearly not strong enough because in this case, the [...]

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Scott McNealy, the smack-talking co-founder and long-running leader of Sun Microsystems, has bid adieu to his company in a memo that mixes nostalgia with a rallying cry for employees about to become part of Oracle. The memo, sent Tuesday under the subject line “Thanks for a great 28 years,” has more genuine emotion than you’ll [...]

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Small and midsize businesses can get three-year, zero-percent financing on products and services ranging in price up to $250,000. The financing is through Cisco Capital, the financing subsidiary of Cisco Systems. It’s available on all Cisco products and services costing $1,000 to $250,000. Companies that purchase a Cisco Smart Business Architecture network plan may also [...]

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Avatar’s worldwide takings in just six weeks stand at $1.859bn (£1.15bn), versus Titanic’s $1.843bn (£1.14bn). The figures are not adjusted for inflation or the higher cost of Avatar’s 3D film tickets. Director James Cameron holds the remarkable distinction of directing both the world’s top grossing movies. Titanic, which starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, set [...]

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Nothing: “This extension does nothing,” developer Salmonella writes. Works as advertised. Good for a chuckle, and nothing more. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9148858/10_Great_Google_Chrome_Extensions?source=rss_softwarehttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9148858/10_Great_Google_Chrome_Extensions?source=rss_software

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Some say it’s a $3 billion-a-year problem, others say insurers, carriers and manufacturers take a $30 billion hit each year. Estimates vary because there is no single source of data. But that’s about to change as insurance data provider ISO and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) prepare to launch CargoNet, the first-ever national database [...]

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We tested the STM600, the high-end appliance Netgear started shipping in November, and found that it does an adequate job of blocking what you don’t want, while making a minimal intrusion into your network. The STM600 combines two main functions in a single appliance. First is e-mail protections, including antispam and anti-malware, as well as [...]

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