The rise of everyday hackers
Veracode released its annual State of Software Security Report, which includes research on software vulnerability trends as well as predictions on how these flaws could be …
Week in review: Carberp Trojan developers arrested, thousands of compromised Apache servers directing users to malware
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Hackers attacking US banks are well-funded, expert says The Cyber …
iMessage encryption stumps US federal agents
A recent investigation conducted by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents has been temporarily derailed after they failed to decrypt messages the targets exchanged via …
10 best practices for securing data in Hadoop
Dataguise released ten security best practices for organizations considering or implementing Hadoop. By following these procedures to manage privacy risk, data management and …
Microsoft to release 9 advisories on Tuesday
April 2013 advance notice is out and it forecasts an interesting patching session for Microsoft administrators. There are 9 advisories affecting 16 distinct platforms in 5 …
Tips for securely using free Tube Wi-Fi
GFI Software warned of potential data and device security concerns posed by using London’s public Wi-Fi service, installed across large parts of the London Underground …
Destroy solid state storage and optical media
Data Security unveiled their SSMD-2mm Destruction Device which disintegrates solid state and optical media to particles 2mm in size or smaller. NSA has evaluated the SSMD-2mm …
Two Japanese web portals hacked, user financial info compromised
Personal and financial information belonging to users of two big Japanese web portals has been compromised earlier this week, Computerworld reports. On Tuesday evening, Yahoo …
Carberp Trojan developers arrested in Ukraine
The mastermind behind the Carberp Trojan and the developers that helped created it have apparently been arrested in Ukraine in a joint action by the Security Service of …
Flashback malware author unmasked?
An estimated 38,000 users is still infected with the Flashback Trojan, the first malware targeting Mac users that didn’t have to get their permission to be downloaded, …
Wide variety of malware lurking in Skype messages
A new malware-spreading campaign is targeting Skype users, warns Dancho Danchev. The attack is mounted via malware-infected users whose compromised Skype account is set to …
My very own personal privacy training
I remember a time – and it wasn’t even that long ago – when the government, companies and organizations weren’t this hell-bent on collecting citizen, …
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