Review: Lookout for iPhone

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One of the recent issues of Forbes magazine featured a three-page story on Lookout Inc., the company that, according to the article, has been able to trounce multibillion-dollar security giants like M...

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Thousands of compromised Apache servers direct users to malware

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What do the recent compromises of a number of LA Times websites and the blog of hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate have in common? According to several security researchers, all these sites are h...

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Destroy solid state storage and optical media

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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 Destruction Device and fo...

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Aggressive Android adware and malware on the rise

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With adware gleaning more user data from people devices than they would normally need too and developers bundle more than one adware framework into their apps, user privacy is increasingly taking a ba...

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iMessage encryption stumps US federal agents

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A recent investigation conducted by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents has been temporarily derailed after they failed to decrypt messages the targets exchanged via Apple's iMessage system. ...

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My very own personal privacy training

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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, customer and user data. It's not that they didn't ...

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Hackers attacking US banks are well-funded, expert says

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The Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam hacker group - also known as Qassam Cyber Fighters - are at it again. For the third time in the last half year or so, they have mounted DDoS attacks agai...

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Defending the Internet at scale

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A decade ago, engineers tackled the C10K scalability problems that prevented servers from handling more than 10,000 concurrent connections. This problem was solved by fixing OS kernels and moving from...

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10 best practices for securing data in Hadoop

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Dataguise released ten security best practices for organizations considering or implementing Hadoop. By following these procedures to manage privacy risk, data management and security, professionals c...

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Two Japanese web portals hacked, user financial info compromised

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Personal and financial information belonging to users of two big Japanese web portals has been compromised earlier these week, Computerworld reports. On Tuesday evening, Yahoo Japan (owned by Sof...

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DIY: Using trust to secure embedded projects

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This talk from Shmoocon 2013 provides a DIY guide to using Trusted Computing on embedded devices. The authors introduce a low-cost schematic using Atmel's CryptoModule (AT97SC3204T) and CryptoAuthe...

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Fake "PayPal account deleted" emails doing rounds

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A new email spam campaign targeting PayPal users is under way. The email subject line says the email contains an unread message from PayPal, but the email address from which it is supposedly sent i...

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Security professionals don't have secure mobile habits

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Security professionals have embraced BYOD and they?re taking ?anytime, anywhere? access to some pretty interesting locations according a new survey by Ping Identity. Most also admit to employing poor ...

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Dataguise enhances DG for Hadoop with selective encryption

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Dataguise announced DG for Hadoop 4.3, which provides both masking and selective encryption for sensitive data in major Hadoop distributions. The new version also delivers expanded capabilities, inclu...

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Firefox enhances private browsing

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Mozilla released Firefox 20 that fixes several security and stability issues. Included in the update are eleven critical security updates. Firefox includes a new enhancement to private browsing t...

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Wide variety of malware lurking in Skype messages

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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 send out messages to thei...

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Malware attacks occur every three minutes

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Malware activity has become so pervasive that organizations experience a malicious email file attachment or Web link as well as malware communication that evades legacy defenses up to once every three...

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