Friday, March 25th, 2016
As if encrypting files and holding them hostage is not enough, cybercriminals who create and spread crypto-ransomware are now resorting to causing blue screen of death (BSoD) and putting their ransom notes at system startup—as in, even before the operating system loads. Imagine turning on your computer and instead of ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2016
Here is an excellent overview of Qubes OS, which I am mostly converting over to for my everyday operating system.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0_gq_ugw8[/embed]
What is Qubes OS? From it's own website:
Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software which runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of ...
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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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Saturday, March 5th, 2016
Researchers have devised an attack on Android and iOS devices that successfully steals cryptographic keys used to protect Bitcoin wallets, Apple Pay accounts, and other high-value assets.
The exploit is what cryptographers call a non-invasive side-channel attack. It works against the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm, a crypto system that's widely ...
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