Sunday, April 28th, 2013
VirusTotal is a greedy creature, one of its gluttonous wishes is to be able to understand and characterize all the races it encounters, it already understood the insurgent collective of Portable Executables, the greenish creatures known as Android APKs, the talkative PDF civilization, etc. as of today it also figures ...
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Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Security firm Lookout has detailed a clever new bit of Android Malware lurking in the Google Play store. The good news: unless you’re downloading questionable Russian clone apps, you’re probably not affected. The bad news: that hasn’t kept it from being downloaded a few million times.
The new malware, fittingly dubbed “BadNews”, has ...
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
A review of publicly visible content on Amazon's S3 storage service found that some sensitive data may be publicly accessible and could contain data used in a future network attack, according to Rapid7, which conducted the study. Misconfiguration issues are common when users set up the S3 service, exposing data ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Need to send sensitive information through email? Normal email messages can be intercepted or hacked before reaching the recipient. However, you can use a free extension for Google Chrome, called SafeGmail, that allows you to send encrypted emails to anyone.
Messages are encrypted and decrypted within the browser, so your message ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
"Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in ...
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