OpenSSL needs corporate funding to avoid Heartbleed repeat
Steve Marquess, OpenSSL Software Foundation president, has called for major users of OpenSSL to stump up and help fund a half dozen full-time OpenSSL employees, rather than the one it has now.
View ArticleWill Facebook’s New Anti-Spam Measures Put an End to Scams?
Last week, Facebook announced a series of improvements to reduce the number of spammy posts that showed up in users News Feed. Weve talked to a couple of experts to find out what they think about the...
View ArticleTutorial: Twitter 2-factor authentication, step-by-step
Making sure you keep your Twitter account safe is incredibly important. This step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot article by our own David Gewirtz should make it easier to be safer.
View ArticleCredit cards stung by Heartbleed bug
GE Money is recommending customers change their passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed security bug, which appears to have made vulnerable a number of GE’s Australian websites.
View ArticleInfoblox Announces Support for XenServer Open-Source Virtualization…
Infoblox Inc. , the automated network control company, today introduced Infoblox Virtual Appliance Software for XenServer, bringing the full range of Infoblox enterprise-grade network control...
View ArticleHeartbleed heartache: This was not a drill, people, and you failed
A serious security flaw affected internet users everywhere, but the Australian government did nothing to help SME and home users understand what was happening.
View ArticleRCE, Information Disclosure and XSS Flaws Found in PayPal Partner Program –...
A security expert has managed to identify three vulnerabilities on paypal-marketing.com, the website used by the payment processor for the PayPal Partner Program. Behrouz Sadeghipour has found and...
View ArticleDropbox patches Heartbleed, opens Australian office
Dropbox has reiterated that it’s 275 million users are safe from Heartbleed, following announcing the opening of its first Australian office in Sydney.
View ArticleNational Retail Federation to Establish Cybersecurity Program
The National Retail Federation (NRF), the worlds largest retail trade association, has announced plans to create a retail and merchant industry information sharing and analysis center that will help...
View ArticleExperts Find 11 Issues in TrueCrypt, but No Backdoors or Malicious Code
In October 2013, some experts announced their intention to audit TrueCrypt, the open source file and disk encryption software, to see if it was really secure. The first phase of the audit has been...
View ArticleMt. Gox founder unwilling to answer inquiries over Bitcoin theft in U.S.
Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles is “unwilling” to travel in order to attend a U.S. bankruptcy hearing.
View ArticleUK Parenting Website Mumsnet Resets User Passwords Following Heartbleed Breach
Mumsnet.com, the popular British parenting website that has millions of unique visitors each month, is requiring registered users to change their passwords because hackers appear to have exploited the...
View ArticleHeartBleed Counter Attack Via Honey Pot Could Snag Hackers Who Compromised...
The hackers behind the HeartBleed security issue that compromised millions of passwords and affected an estimated two-thirds of “secure” websites around the world could be brought down by a simple and...
View ArticlePOS Malware, RATs and Banking Trojans Used by Cybercrime Group
Security experts from FireEye have been monitoring the activities of a cybercrime group that uses various types of malware in its operations. There are two major types of cybercriminals: ones that use...
View ArticleCo3 Systems Makes Incident Response Management Systems Available in Europe
Massachusetts-based incident response management solutions provider Co3 Systems is launching in Europe. The companys services are available to organizations across Europe. Weve already closed our first...
View ArticleMembers of Two Android App Piracy Groups Plead Guilty
The United States Department of Justice has announced that the members of two different Android app piracy groups have pleaded guilty to distributing illegal copies of copyrighted applications. One of...
View ArticleHackonomics: Street prices for black market bugs
A recent RAND Corporation report on the black market for hacks, cracks, data theft, botnets and zero days tells us your hacked Amex Black fetches a decent price, but only if you’re not an American.
View ArticleChinese Hackers Are Scanning the Web for Websites Vulnerable to Heartbleed...
While many companies have already updated their OpenSSL installations to prevent cybercriminals from stealing their customers information by exploiting the Heartbleed bug, there are a number of...
View ArticleOracle issues critical patch update: 104 security fixes
In a massive critical patch update, Oracle has fixed 104 security flaws within its products. Unsurprisingly, Java is at the top of the list.
View ArticleOracle Fixes 104 Security Holes with April 2014 CPU
Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2014. A total of 104 security fixes are included in the latest update, the company has announced. The list of affected products includes...
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