Thursday, September 5th, 2013
The new Snowden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics.
It's joint reporting between the Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica.
I have been working with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden documents, and I have seen a lot ...
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Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
Protecting your privacy online is a hot topic right now, with PRISM looming over the heads of all Internet users. But even if you take PRISM aside, there is a drive towards privacy on the Internet.
One of the things that users need to be aware of is the difference between ...
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Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying on long passcodes and phrases to protect their website accounts and other online assets.
Until now, ocl-Hashcat-plus, the Hashcat ...
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Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
Warning to anyone still using Java 6: Upgrade now to Java 7 to avoid being compromised by active attacks.
That alert came via F-Secure anti-malware analyst Timo Hirvonen, who reported finding an in-the-wild exploit actively targeting an unpatched vulnerability in Java 6 following the recent publication of related proof-of-concept (POC) attack ...
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Friday, August 23rd, 2013
Denial of service attack capabilities have been found in popular media program Orbit Downloader.
The Windows program integrated into web browsers and was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from website Softpedia and 18,000 times last month alone from rival Softonic. It was still available for download on these sites.
But Eset ...
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