Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
Ethan Oberman has a problem with cloud computing. "A person should be able to use cloud technologies without relinquishing his or her privacy," explained Oberman, CEO of cloud storage service SpiderOak, in a phone interview.
Given Internet companies that rely on mining data about users for revenue, government agencies that have the ...
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Monday, July 29th, 2013
"Hello Mr Welch. Visa Card Services here." That was the line with which my nightmare started one Sunday morning, hungover, sitting on the sofa trying to piece together the night before. The landline rang. I was surprised because I’d only given the number to about three people.
The person on the ...
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Saturday, July 27th, 2013
The world lost a great hacker/security researcher on Thursday, just days before he was going to present his talk on hacking implantable medical devices. He stated it was possible to remotely control a pacemaker (aka kill someone) from 30 feet away and worked with the device manufacturers to secure the ...
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Thursday, July 25th, 2013
The ferocious nature of modern malware is wreaking havoc on some organizations, forcing security professionals to reassess current security policies and consider spending on modernizing defenses to detect attacks, according to a new survey.
The study, released this week by Enterprise Strategy Group and commissioned by Malwarebytes, surveyed 315 security professionals ...
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Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card.
Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of ...
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