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Mounting evidence points towards Home Depot breach
Still officially unconfirmed, a Home Depot hack looks increasingly likely to have happened. As Nicole Perlroth noted, the source of stolen card information can be discovered …
Twitter launches bug bounty program
With a simple tweet, Twitter has officially launched its own bug bounty program. Set up through the security response and bug bounty platform HackerOne, the program offers a …
New Firefox offers MITM protection via public key pinning
Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox (v32) for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, and the new browser sports some notable security improvements. For one, the new …
Home Depot breached, carders selling stolen payment card info
The Home Depot, a popular American home improvement and construction retailer that boasts of 2,200 stores in the US and 287 abroad, has apparently suffered a data breach that …
iCloud wasn’t hacked, says Apple
Apple has released a statement denying that iCloud was hacked to steal nude photos of celebrities. “When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately …
Namecheap accounts brute-forced by CyberVor gang?
California-based domain registrar and web hosting firm Namecheap has been targeted by hackers, the company’s VP of hosting Matt Russell warned on Monday, and said that …
Tox: Open-source, P2P Skype alternative
If you like the convenience of Skype, but you are worried about government surveillance and don’t trust Microsoft to keep you safe against it, Tox might be just the …
New BlackPOS variant masquerades as AV service
Before the Backoff point-of-sale malware received deserved attention, the main player in the PoS malware field was BlackPOS (or Kaptoxa), the memory-scraping malware that was …
Beware of scams following the celebrity nude photo news
As the FBI confirmed that they are investigating the leaking of nude photographs (some real, some fake) of a hundred female celebrities, the hunt for the person(s?) behind it …
Heartbleed still a critical threat
Cyber attackers have been quick to exploit the Hearbleed OpenSSL bug, to the tune of hundreds of thousand attacks per day in the week after the public revelation of its …
JPMorgan attackers altered bank records
The number of US banks that have apparently been targeted and breached by hackers is slowly rising, as newer reports say that seven financial organizations have been hit. …
Google reassures enterprise users with independent security audits
Google is doing everything it can to restore the confidence in its products that some users lost in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA spying. Among …
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