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10,000 GitHub users inadvertently reveal their AWS secret access keys

GitHub developers who are also Amazon Web Services users are advised to check the code they made public on their project pages and to delete secret access keys for their AWS …

Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed

Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, has managed to largely mitigate a DDoS attack that started today (March 24) at 8:46 central time and which made its services unavailable …

NSA compromised Huawei’s servers, spied on its executives

For years, the US government has been very vocal about its distrust of Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei, pointedly blocking acquisitions and takeovers that would allow …

Gmail users get full, always-on HTTPS

Google has made good on its word and has introduced default encryption for all Gmail users. “Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you …

NSA targets sys admins to breach computer networks

A newly analyzed document from Edward Snowden’s trove show that the NSA collects personal and account information on system administrators and uses it to compromise …

Bitcoin software update fixes transaction ID malleability bugs

Bitcoin Core – as the Bitcoin infrastructure software has been renamed to in order to avoid confusion with the the Bitcoin network – has been updated to make, …

Microsoft accessed Hotmail account to uncover internal leaker

This week’s charging of a former Microsoft employee for stealing the company’s trade secrets could have passed almost unnoticed were it not for an important detail …

BlackOS malicious web traffic managing software is on sale

Security researchers are keeping a close eye on underground cybercrime forums and are quick to spot new offerings, such as the BlackOS software package. Not to be confused …

US tech firms knew about and assisted with PRISM data collection

In a testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the NSA general council Rajesh De and his colleague stated on Wednesday that the tech companies that …

Over 31,000 IoT devices and computers infected by cryptocoin-mining worm

A new version of the Darlloz Linux worm, which targets Internet-enabled devices such as home routers and security cameras, computers running Intel x86 architectures as well as …

Oracle releases Java 8

Oracle has released Java Standard Edition (SE) 8, Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8. The new releases work on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows …

Tor warns of malicious Tor browser offered on the App Store

A public plea made on Twitter by Runa A. Sandvik, a (former?) developer with The Tor Project has turned the spotlight on a still unresolved issue of an apparently fake Tor …

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