Orbit Downloader hacked, turns users into DDoS bots

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Denial of service attack capabilities have been found in popular media program Orbit Downloader. The Windows program integrated into web browsers and was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from website Softpedia and 18,000 times last month alone from rival Softonic. It was still available for download on these sites. But Eset ...

Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption

Thursday, August 15th, 2013

We know that security is important to you and your customers. Our goal is to make securing your data as painless as possible. To help, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. There is no setup or configuration required, no need ...

The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary by releasing a web browser that allows users to access TPB or other sites censored in their country. "PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client ...

Mailvelope: use OpenPGP encryption on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other webmail services

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would ...

SpiderOak Takes Novel Approach To Data Privacy

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

Ethan Oberman has a problem with cloud computing. "A person should be able to use cloud technologies without relinquishing his or her privacy," explained Oberman, CEO of cloud storage service SpiderOak, in a phone interview. Given Internet companies that rely on mining data about users for revenue, government agencies that have the ...