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The dismal state of SATCOM security

Satellite Communications (SATCOM) play a vital role in the global telecommunications system, but the security of the devices used leaves much to be desired, says Ruben …

Tor relays vulnerable to Heartbleed dropped from anonymity network

Thanks to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, the Tor anonymity network is set to temporarily lose around “12 per cent of the exit capacity and 12 per cent of the guard …

Zeus/rootkit combo delivered via Starbucks-themed emails

Malware peddlers have been spotted impersonating popular coffeehouse chain Starbucks in order to trick users into downloading a rootkit-equipped variant of the Zeus banking …

Student arrested for Heartbleed-exploiting tax agency breach

A 19-year-old Canadian student has been arrested for breaching the systems of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and extracting Social Insurance Numbers of some 900 taxpayers. It …

Secure email service Lavaboom launches

Lavaboom, a German secure email service that aims to provide users with the most secure email account they will ever own (their words), will go into private beta around …

Oracle patches 104 vulns, still working on some Heartbleed fixes

Oracle’s April 2014 Critical Patch Update has been released, and solves a total of 104 vulnerabilities found across many of its products, including Oracle Database, …

Hackers steal info of 480,000 people interested in cosmetic surgery

Hackers have targeted Harley Medical Group, one of the leading cosmetic surgery provider in the UK, and have apparently made off with personal information entered into the …

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner can be tricked

Samsung’s newly released Galaxy S5 phone sports a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button that works well but unfortunately, like iPhone 5S’ TouchID before …

Hardware manufacturer LaCie suffered year-long data breach

French computer storage hardware manufacturer LaCie has suffered a data breach that affected a yet unconfirmed number of their customers. “On March 19, 2014, the FBI …

Heartbleed: VMware starts delivering patches

VMware has announced that it has started shipping patches for its products that have been impacted by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. “VMware is acutely aware of the …

First phase of TrueCrypt audit finds no backdoors

Remember when late last year cryptographer Matthew Green and Kenneth White, Principal Scientist at Social & Scientific Systems, called for – and then organized …

Confirmed Heartbleed victim: Canada Revenue Agency

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has been breached by attackers that leveraged the newly discovered Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and managed to compromise Social Insurance Numbers …

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