Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Apple has "inadvertently admitted" to creating a "backdoor" in iOS, according to a new post by a forensics scientist, iOS author and former hacker, who this week created a stir when he posted a presentation laying out his case.
Apple has created "several services and mechanisms" that let Apple -- and, ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission.
Privacy Badger was launched in an alpha version less than three months ago, ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Following an international takedown of Cryptolocker, new ransomware identified by Microsoft as Critroni.A has been gaining momentum since making a June appearance in underground marketplaces, according to a security researcher going by the name Kafeine.
The malware – which is marketed as CTB-Locker (Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker) and costs $3,000 per month – ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2014
The U.S. Secret Service is advising the hospitality industry to inspect computers made available to guests in hotel business centers, warning that crooks have been compromising hotel business center PCs with keystroke-logging malware in a bid to steal personal and financial data from guests.
A DHS/Secret Service advisory dated July 10, 2014. In a non-public ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2014
Apple users accessing Gmail on mobile devices could be at risk of having their data intercepted, a mobile security company said Thursday.
The reason is Google has not yet implemented a security technology that would prevent attackers from viewing and modifying encrypted communications exchanged with the Web giant, wrote Avi Bashan, ...
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