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Could a vulnerability tax spur vendors to improve security?

He has recently been appointed as Apple’s global director of security and he is expected to begin his work in March, but former National Security Agency cryptographer …

PlentyofFish CEO accuses Argentian hackers of elaborate extortion scheme

The Argentinian hackers that hacked The Pirate Bay back in July are at it again. They have supposedly hacked the popular free online dating site PlentyofFish and, according to …

ATM skimmers don’t even have to be on the ATM

Careful ATM users know enough to give a hasty visual check to the machine before using it and to hide the keyboard while entering their PIN. Unfortunately, sometimes even that …

EFF exposes extensive FBI violations

In 2009, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a suit against a number of federal agencies that deal with intelligence gathering, requesting that they release documents and …

Top cybercrime host and others get shut down

VolgaHost, the “World’s number one bad host”, has been taken offline on January 17th, reports malicious host-tracking outfit HostExploit. A few weeks before …

Spammers take advantage of the Facebook API bug?

It seems that high-profile accounts and Facebook pages might not be the only ones messed with by individuals taking advantage of the bug found in Facebook’s API. All …

5 men busted in relation to Anonymous DDoS attacks

Five men believed to have taken part in recent Anonymous’ DDoS attacks have been arrested this morning during a series of raids coordinated by the Metropolitan Police …

API bug responsible for Zuckerberg page hack

When at first Facebook didn’t issue a statement about what really happened on Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page and how someone managed to post a message in his name …

A step towards wider SSL implementation

Two great stumbling blocks on the path leading to a Web-wide implementation of the SSL/TLS protocols have always been cost and speed. So far, the great majority of websites …

An increase in form-based e-mail phishing attacks

Luring people in with the promise of hefty tax refunds and “stimulus payments”, phishers have been targeting users with e-mails purportedly coming from HM Revenue …

Facebook adds secure browsing and social authentication

The “social CAPTCHA” method of authentication that Facebook developed to prevent the Tunisian government to access the accounts of the people whose login …

Protesters organize via social networks, governments move to block them

The wave of nation-wide protests that ended in the Tunisian president Ben Ali’s run to Saudi Arabia was at least in part made possible by the organizers’ use of …

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