Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The dreaded Cryptolocker virus made an unwelcome return over the last few weeks in the form of a new variant named Cryptowall.If you were not aware of Cryptolocker, it is a nasty malware that computer users may be tricked into opening by way of an e-mail attachment. When opened, it ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2014
Malicious advertisements on domains belonging to Disney, Facebook, The Guardian newspaper and others are leading people to malware that encrypts a computer's files until a ransom is paid, Cisco Systems has found.
The finding comes shortly after technology companies and U.S. law enforcement banded together in a large operation to shut ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Security vendor ESET claims to have discovered the first ever piece of file-encrypting Android ransomware, which has an associated C&C server hosted on a TOR domain to hide its location.The malware, detected by the vendor as 'Android/Simplocker', is most likely a work in progress as the implementation of the encryption ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard.
Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Comcast Corp. the nation's largest Internet provider by number of homes and businesses served, Tuesday said it would begin scrambling customers' email to protect it from prying eyes.
The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the ...
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