Sunday, July 21st, 2013
The Ubuntu forums are the latest to suffer a data breach, from a hacker, taking place last night. An estimated 1.82 million accounts have been affected and at the time of writing the site is still down for maintenance.
According to the placeholder page currently on the Ubuntu site, only the forums were ...
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Friday, July 19th, 2013
85 percent of U.S. adults with banking accounts are at least somewhat concerned about online banking fraud, according to Entersekt. Such fraud can include phishing, malware, man-in-the-browser and brute force attacks.
While concern is worth noting, it is action that impacts the ultimate health of a financial institution. Seventy-one percent of ...
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Friday, July 12th, 2013
Computer manufacturer HP has admitted that its StoreVirtual servers also contain an undocumented backdoor. The security vulnerability risks allowing attackers to gain unauthorised access to the storage systems. The backdoor provides users with direct access to the holy of holies, "LeftHand" (the operating system for the StoreVirtual server). HP has ...
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Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Reports from earlier this week suggested that AT&T is ready to follow in its rivals’ footsteps and begin selling the private usage data it collects from its subscribers’ phones to advertisers. The data in question is anonymized, according to AT&T, but it includes very sensitive information such as customers’ locations, Web browsing history, mobile app ...
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Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Brute-force attacks are fairly simple to understand, but difficult to protect against. Encryption is math, and as computers become faster at math, they become faster at trying all the solutions and seeing which one fits.
These attacks can be used against any type of encryption, with varying degrees of success. Brute-force attacks ...
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