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What are the risks of virtual currency use?

Many consumers have heard about Bitcoin, but they don’t necessarily know anything about it: not the full spectrum of benefits, and definitely not the risks they can …

Blackphone rooted at DEF CON?

Blackphone, the recently released security-oriented smartphone, has apparently been rooted. The feat was executed at the DEF CON hacker conference, where Jon Sawyer …

US switch to chip-and-PIN cards not a panacea for fraud

The massive breach that Target suffered late last year was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back and made the company decide to move to chip-and-PIN card …

Smart Nest thermostat easily turned into spying device

At this year’s edition of the Black Hat security conference, a group of researchers has shown how extremely easy is to hack into the smart thermostats manufactured by …

“Facebook color changer” app leads to malware, account hijacking

The change-your-Facebook-color scam is once again targeting inexperienced users of the social network, and they are once again falling for it. According to researchers from …

Yahoo will offer end-to-end mail encryption by 2015

Since the beginning of this year, Yahoo has had several good news for its customers: Yahoo Mail got HTTPS on by default, and the company began encrypting all the traffic …

Critical bug in WordPress plugin allows site hijacking

A popular WordPress plugin that allows site owners to easily customize the contact form has a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to download and remotely modify the …

CIA’s venture firm CISO offers singular solutions for cyber problems

In a eclectic keynote delivered to the Black Hat conference audience, Dan Geer, CISO at In-Q-Tel, made known his thoughts on and ideas about a number of things: from Internet …

Snowden allowed to stay in Russia for three more years

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been permitted to stay in Russia for another three years, and is free to travel within the country and abroad, Russia Today reports. …

Google: Websites using HTTPS will get better search rankings

Websites that don’t use HTTPS will be ranked lower in Google Search results, the web giant has announced on Wednesday. “At Google I/O a few months ago, we called …

US DHS contractor gets hacked

USIS, the largest commercial provider of background investigations to the US federal government, has announced that it has suffered a breach that might have resulted in the …

Symantec issues update fixing Endpoint Protection zero-day

Symantec has issued updates for its Endpoint Protection solution that fix the zero-day escalation of privilege vulnerability recently discovered by Offensive Security …

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