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The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption

As the amount of information we consume every day rises inexorably, we have to be aware that our brain is not able to store it and retrieve it like a computer. Also, that …

Sirefef infections explode due to new infection technique

The Sirefef/Zaccess family of Trojans – designed to download other malware, disable the machine’s security features, and often make lasting changes to the computer …

Malware-laden emails target hedge fund managers

A highly targeted spam campaign aimed at hedge and private equity fund managers has recently been spotted by Barracuda Labs researchers. The email looks like it has been …

Website analyzes and rates convoluted Terms of Service

When signing up for an online service, users are required to read and agree to the presented Terms of Service (ToS). But these terms often go on and on, and are written in …

Who is using the commercial cyberespionage tool FinFisher?

Malware development has long stopped being the exclusive domain of individuals and groups looking for strictly fame or money. As years passed and everybody and everything went …

Raising user awareness about privacy issues

In this age of social networks, discovering personal information about users has become increasingly easy to do, and that information can be misused at a later date for …

Facebook deceived developers and users with Verified Apps program

The privacy settlement that the US Federal Trade Commission and Facebook agreed on last November has been finalized on Friday and, unlike Google earlier that week, Facebook …

What’s so special about Gauss?

Kaspersky Lab experts have recently notified the world of the existence of another piece of malware that seems to have come from the same workshop(s) that pushed out Stuxnet, …

Microsoft and NYPD unveil new centralized surveillance system

New York City and Microsoft have joined forces and developed a new computer system that aggregates and analyzes the information gathered through a number of public safety data …

Scientists create algorithm for tracking down sources of online attacks

One of the problems when it comes to catching online criminals of any kind is the fact that it is often extremely difficult to pinpoint the origins of internet attacks – …

Bogus “MS Cyber-Crime Department” warnings lead to phishing

Emails purportedly sent by the Microsoft Cyber-Crime Department warning all Internet users that their email account may be deleted from the “world email server” …

Nationwide phishing emails hit inboxes

Customers of Nationwide Building Society, a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the world, are being targeted with phishing emails …

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