Friday, June 20th, 2014
The United States House of Representatives voted in favor today of an amendment which would cut funding to the NSA's controversial "backdoor search" programs, which critics have long bemoaned as unconstitutional and even illegal.
The amendment, co-sponsored by reps Zoe Lofgren and Thomas Massie, sought to change a provision in the 2015 Defense ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Android has a well-earned reputation for malware issues, despite Google’s efforts to keep its Play Store free of rogue apps. But there are many dark corners of Android where malware continues to thrive, particularly on independent app stores that do little or nothing to keep such apps at bay.
Security advisors ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
A new malware campaign spreading the Zeus trojan via phishing messages was discovered by researchers early Wednesday.
AppRiver, an email messaging and web security solutions firm, told SCMagazine.com on Wednesday that it had quarantined 400,000 messages so far – a number that had jumped up from 40,000 just earlier in the ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
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Simplocker is a new Android virus that encrypts photos, videos, and documents stored on smartphones and tablets, and then demands payment to decrypt them.
“Simplocker blocks access to files stored on mobile ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Security researchers said they've spotted a new type of banking malware that rivals the capabilities of the infamous Zeus malware.
The malware, which is being called "Dyreza" or "Dyre," uses a man-in-the-middle attack that lets the hackers intercept unencrypted web traffic while users mistakenly think they have a secure connection with ...
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