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WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents

WikiLeaks has published “Espionnage Élysée”, a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the …

Over $18 million lost to Cryptowall just in the US

“Cryptowall is still “the most current and significant ransomware threat targeting US individuals and businesses,” the FBI warned in a public service …

Flash Player 0-day exploited in the wild, patch immediately!

Adobe has released an emergency patch for its notoriously buggy Flash Player software because attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability that can lead to total …

US, UK spies reverse-engineered security software in search for flaws

The UK GCHQ has been actively trying to reverse-engineer popular security software in order find vulnerabilities that can be used to neutralize the protection the software …

HP releases exploit code for IE zero-day that Microsoft won’t patch

Despite having paid $125,000 for information about an Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer, Microsoft has decided against …

Critical RubyGems vulns can lead to installation of malicious apps

A serious vulnerability in RubyGems, a package manager for the Ruby programming language, can be exploited to trick end users into installing malware from attacker-controlled …

OPM hack shines light on abysmal state of US federal systems’s security

With each passing day, newly revealed details about the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack show an ugly picture of the security situation in the OPM, and other US …

How to find a free, secure proxy service?

There are several reasons one might want to use web proxy services, and depending on that reason, it might not be a very good idea to choose a free one randomly.Vienna-based …

Cyber attack grounds Polish LOT aeroplanes

Around 1,400 unlucky travelers who were set to depart from Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport on Sunday had their flights cancelled or delayed for hours, as the computer …

New password recovery scam hitting Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users

A simple yet ingenious scam is being used by scammers to compromise accounts of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users, Symantec researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski warns.“To …

Many popular Android apps fail to encrypt login credentials

Using encryption to protect mobile traffic and especially the exchange of credentials between the user and company servers should be a must in this day and age. Unfortunately, …

New Drupal versions fix admin account hijack flaw

New versions of popular open source content management system Drupal are out, and fix a series of vulnerabilities, including a critical one that can result in an attacker …

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