Turkey Blocks Users from Accessing Tor Website to Prevent Censorship...
Turkey has recently banned both Twitter and YouTube. However, that hasnt stopped users from accessing the services with the aid of Googles DNS servers and the Tor network. After blocking Googles DNS...
View ArticleThe upside of the Target hack, and how you can stay safe
Every week or two, we learn something new about the horrific data breach Target suffered late last year.
View ArticleRapid7 Pushes Defense Prioritization, Segmentation Testing In Latest Product...
Rapid7 announced a number of enhancements to its IT security data and analytics solutions portfolio this week, including its Nexpose, UserInsight and Metasploit Pro offerings. The company, which just...
View ArticleEcuador President Says Twitter Account Hacked
QUITO – Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has said his Twitter account was hacked, blaming right-wing foreign groups for posting false tweets in his name. The messages were removed several minutes...
View ArticleU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Examines Threat to Wall Street from...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will examine, according to Bloomberg News, the exposure of stock exchanges, brokerages and also other Wall Street firms to cyber-attacks that have been...
View ArticleU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Examines Threat to Wall Street from...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will examine, according to Bloomberg News, the exposure of stock exchanges, brokerages and also other Wall Street firms to cyber-attacks that have been...
View ArticleWeight Loss Spam Campaign Seen on Pinterest
The accounts of several Pinterest users have been abused in a spam campaign promoting shady weight loss products and giveaways. The social media companys representatives say theyre aware of the spam...
View ArticleDetails of 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside Students Possibly Accessed...
Cybercriminals could have stolen the personal details of 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside students with the aid of malware planted on one of the educational institutions servers. According to a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Stops Probing Hotmail to Plug Leaks
SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft on Friday scrapped a policy which allowed it to peek at Hotmail messages to plug leaks or investigate intellectual property theft. The change came after news broke last week...
View ArticleHackers target journalists: Reporters caught spying on other reporters
As reported by Dan Levine, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled yesterday that a blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist.
View ArticleFake “No War on Syria” Petitions Used by Spammers to Harvest Information
Spammers are relying on the recent news about the US arming Syria rebels in order to trick Internet users into handing over their personal details. There are numerous online petitions against the...
View Article10 Simple Tips to Bank Safely Online
One of the issues I’m passionate about, as an online-security analyst, is that of banking safely online; so I recommend the following simple tips to help ensure your security in cyberspace.
View ArticlePreparing For A Digital Armageddon
We are under attack. Whether it is cyber-theft, cyber-terrorism, or cyber warfare, critical systems that generate and distribute electricity on the grid, control commercial aircraft in flight, process...
View ArticleHypervisors: The cloud’s potential security Achilles heel
A cloud is only as secure as the hypervisors that support its virtual machines and how secure are those? That’s a darn good question and one we tend to avoid looking at.
View ArticleGoogle Says Public DNS Intercepted by ISPs in Turkey
Google on Saturday warned that its Public Domain Name System (DNS) service has been intercepted by the majority of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Turkey. Google’s Public DNS resolution service...
View ArticleUS Intelligence Had Over 300 Reports on Merkel: German Weekly
FRANKFURT – The US National Security Agency’s vast eavesdropping programs amassed more than 300 reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Der Spiegel reported Saturday, citing information leaked by...
View ArticleFreeware Pick: eradicate the dolphin virus in hacker roguelike Cyberdekay
Mark “Ragzouken” Wonnacott’s Cyberdekay is a tough game to crack. If you’re up learning how a bunch of systems work, then a challenging data dive awaits. Incoming search terms for the article: roguelike
View ArticleJournalists ‘need to wake up’ to online security
Journalists who do not understand online security technologies are “being really irresponsible” if they then assure confidentiality for sources, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger warned today.
View ArticleGoogle: 84% of Online News Sites Hacked by Governments
According to a recent Google report released at a conference in Singapore, it shows that the majority of online news sites are frequent targets of government sponsored hackers.
View ArticleCity officials monitor websites, cyber attack
City officials are on alert. They’re bracing for a potential cyber attack by a well-known group named “Anonymous.”
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