Stop mass surveillance now or face consequences, MEPs say to US
Parliament’s consent to the EU-US trade deal “could be endangered” if blanket mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency does not stop, members of …
High-bandwidth NTP amplification DDoS attacks escalate
Prolexic issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of new DDoS …
Account-hijacking Trojan spreads via Facebook messages
Private messages delivering what seems to be an image are spreading like wildfire on Facebook, as the file in question triggers the download of a Trojan that compromises the …
290k+ users possibly affected in North Dakota University breach
Hackers have managed to access and to apparently misuse one of the servers used by the North Dakota University System, but there is no evidence that they made off with the …
Whatsapp flaw could reveal all your past conversations
A new Whatsapp flaw that allows any other applications on your Android device to exfiltrate and decrypt past Whatsapp conversations has been discovered and revealed by …
Criminal attacks on healthcare increase 100 percent
As millions of new patients enter the U.S. healthcare system under the Affordable Care Act, patient records have become a smorgasbord for criminals. A new study on patient …
Head of Senate Intelligence Committee accuses CIA of spying on Senate
The long awaited reprimand of the US intelligence community by Senator Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, happened yesterday, but not for the …
How do the top 100 UK ecommerce sites deal with personal data?
Dashlane assessed the password security procedures on the Top 100 e-commerce sites by examining 26 different password security criteria and awarding/docking points depending …
External IT security risks are increasing
Over two thirds (71.8%) of organizations believe that the IT security risks they face from external sources has increased. This is the key finding of annual industry research …
Do organizations care about data protection?
Most consumers just don’t believe that the personal and financial data they submit to corporations is safe. That’s the unmistakable takeaway from a new snap poll …
Google Glass offers additional security to ATM users
Taking photos with a wink, checking one’s calendar with a glance of the right eye, reading text messages — the multinational cooperation Google wants to make it …
Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
DNS and NTP servers are not the only publicly accessible resources that can be misused to amplify DDoS attacks. Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid revealed details of a recent incident in …
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