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Chrome plugin aims to thwart user profiling efforts

Inspired by a piece of fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother, developer Ben West created a browser plugin that should, in theory, make it …

Scanning the Internet in less than an hour

Scanning the Internet used to be a task that took months, but a new tool created by a team of researchers from the University of Michigan can scan all (or most) of the …

New Zeus variant creates bogus Instagram accounts

If you are familiar with the results of a recently finished study regarding online content popularity that concluded that “likes” beget “likes”, the …

Advanced threats to drive growth in new product segment

As hackers have shifted their ultimate goals from disruption and notoriety to financial and intellectual property theft, the tactics they use have changed accordingly. The …

LastPass bug leaks plain text passwords

Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …

Lavabit owner risks arrest for not complying with surveillance order

The incessant revelations fueled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have made people reevaluate their expectations of privacy and their beliefs on …

Manage security across multiple systems with Milan 3.0

Prosperoware Milan 3.0, an integrated platform for information governance, now includes a new module that helps firms move to a “need-to-know” security model. …

WebTitan Cloud: Web filtering service for SMBs

SpamTitan Technologies launched WebTitan Cloud, a scalable web content filtering service that helps businesses control Internet usage. It allows organizations to create …

Week in review: NSA privacy violations, key cloud computing trends, and building security culture

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, interviews, reviews and articles: Can biometrics revolutionize mobile payment security? …

Firm found using browser plugins to inject unauthorized ads on YouTube

Sambreel, a California-based firm that nearly two years ago has been found using browser plugins to deliver ads by injecting them into Facebook and Google pages, is up to its …

NSA internal audit reveals thousands of privacy violations

An internal NSA audit document and several other seen by The Washington Post journalists prove that there have been over a 1,000 violations of FISA and presidential executive …

Google delivers patch for Android SecureRandom implementation

An Android security engineer has again confirmed the existence of the vulnerability that made the most popular Bitcoin wallet apps for the platform open to attack, and offered …

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