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Tech companies and privacy practices: Who has your back?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fourth annual “Who Has Your Back” report that aims to show which major technology companies are good at …

Carder sentenced to 20 years in prison

Member of Organization That Operated Online Marketplace for Stolen Personal Information Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison A Phoenix man convicted after a jury trial last …

Tor cannot protect you from targeted surveillance

In the wake of all the revelations about mass Internet surveillance efforts by the US NSA, a lot of users but also many businesses and government agencies around the world …

Recently patched IE 0-day abused in APT attacks

When Microsoft issued an out-of-band security update to patch the zero day Internet Explorer vulnerability on May 1, it was revealed by researchers from security company …

Fake mobile AV apps sold on Google Play and Windows Phone Store

Remember when the popular but totally useless security app named Virus Shield appeared for sale on Google Play and netted its creators over $40,000 before being removed from …

Bad news for Cryptocat as it debuts Encrypted Facebook Chat

Mere days after Cryptocat creator Nadim Kobeissi announced that the latest update of the popular software will allow Facebook users to use encrypted chat, the social network …

New browser hijacker/click fraud malware threatens Windows users

In its latest Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft has noted that malware designed to make money for the attacker via click fraud, performing Bitcoin mining, and …

Phishing campaigns target diverse webmail users at once

Every now and then, phishers mount campaigns that simultaneously target users of different online services. This time the lures are different: access to a document that is …

NSA allegedly puts backdoors on American-made network devices

Glenn Greenwald’s new book titled No Place to Hide is out today. Aside from telling the story of how he worked with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Laura …

“Your Photos Are being Used” phishing scam targeting Facebook users

Another day, another Facebook phishing scam. This one comes in the form of a warning sent by a friend: “OMG YOUR PHOTOS ARE BEING USED ON THIS SITE.” The victim, …

Researchers find, analyze forged SSL certs in the wild

A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook has managed to get a concrete sense of just how prevalent SSL man-in-the-middle attacks using forged SSL …

Why Google prefers numeric CAPTCHAs

Alphanumeric CAPTCHAs – those more or less difficult-to-read combinations that are used by many online services to discern whether a user is human or a bot – have …

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