Saturday, March 19th, 2016
Once again, major browsers fell at the two-day security contest Pwn2Own. Security flaws in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari were all successfully exploited. A total of $460,000 was awarded for 21 vulnerabilities across the three browsers as well as Windows, OS X, and Flash. Last year’s total was ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
Over the weekend, one of Google's top security researchers, Tavis Ormandy, published a blog post in which he criticized antivirus certification programs that award meaningless prizes to flawed security products.
His problem came from the fact that at this year's RSA security conference held at the start of March, Verizon's ICSA ...
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Sunday, March 6th, 2016
A security research firm announced Sunday its discovery of what is believed to be the world’s first ransomware that specifically goes after OS X machines.
"This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” Ryan Olson, of Palo Alto Networks, told ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2016
Google added two new security indicators to its email service Gmail which reveal TLS encryption support and whether the sender could be authenticated.
Many popular email services, including Gmail, support TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption to protect data while it is in transit.
TLS is only useful if both the sending and ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2016
Here's a great VPN comparison chart showing various details such as logging, location, privacy, security and pricing. Excellent resource to bookmark.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true
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