Microsoft hands out $128k in bug bounties
As the date of the release of the final version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8 and RT draws near, Microsoft has announced that it has paid out over $28,000 to six …
Free secure messaging app from Carnegie Mellon researchers
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers have developed a free smartphone app for iOS and Android users to safely exchange identity data without risk of theft, deception …
Video: Recent advances in IPv6 security
There are a number of factors that make the IPv6 protocol suite interesting from a security standpoint. Firstly, being a new technology, technical personnel has much less …
Users want to access all their content in just one secure place
Are you managing your content, or is your content managing you? An F-Secure survey shows that, with their photos, videos, and other documents scattered across various cloud …
Beginning of a new era: The digital industrial economy
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.6 percent increase from 2013, but it’s the opportunities of a digital world that have IT leaders …
Webroot delivers data, identity and threat protection
Webroot released the latest updates to its Webroot SecureAnywhere portfolio. The latest release brings new detection technology to block emerging malware and phishing attacks …
PureVPN users receive fake email saying authorities closed down the service
Over the weekend, customers of Hong Kong-based VPN service PureVPN were taken aback by an email that was seemingly sent by the company’s founder Uzair Gadit, saying that …
Most unauthorized data access goes undetected
With a focus primarily on large enterprise organizations, a Vormetric study of 700 IT security decision-makers indicates that there are major gaps between existing security …
Brazil determined to stop NSA spying
Perhaps no country in the world has been as vocal about doing something about NSA’s global Internet surveillance reach as Brazil. As one of the fastest-growing major …
Vulnerable and aggressive adware threatening millions
FireEye discovered a new mobile threat from a popular ad library that no other antivirus or security vendor has reported publicly before. Mobile ad libraries are third-party …
Video: How the grid will be hacked
There is a never ending stream of vulnerabilities in the mechanical and cyber systems that support the grid. So, why hasn’t there been any significant breach of the …
GnuPG 2.0.22 fixes security problem
GnuPG 2.0.22 is a security fix release and all users are advised to updated to this version. What’s new: Fixed possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet …
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