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Online Extortionists Are Using Encryption as a Ransom Weapon
Most of the time we discuss encryption as a way to protect ourselves online , but an increasingly popular form of digital attack uses …
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches
After nearly a year of drama, the widely-used encryption software TrueCrypt has come out from its security audit with a mostly clean bill of …
A network error routed traffic for the UK’s nuclear weapons agency through Russian telecom
For the past week, something strange has been going on in the European internet. For five days, web traffic from Texas to certain addresses …
The CIA Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets
RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to …
California dentist announces theft of server containing patient information
The office of a dentist in California, Cathrine Steinborn, was burglarized and a server containing patient and responsible party information – including Social Security …
After Superfish-Lenovo incident, Facebook probes larger issue of SSL-sniffing adware
Last week, PC maker Lenovo was called out for shipping laptops with adware, called “Superfish,” pre-installed – an incident that led Facebook to investigate …
Stolen DJO Global laptop contained patient data
California-based medical device company DJO Global is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals that a laptop computer containing some personal patient information was stolen …
Messaging Apps Are Terribly Insecure
t’s likely that every single day, you use a messaging app to communicate with friends and family. It’s also likely that the messaging app …
Verizon’s New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA
Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for secure communication, and it’s doing so with an encryption standard that comes …
18.5 Million Californians’ Personal Data Exposed in 2013
California Attorney General Kamala Harris recently released the second annual California Data Breach Report [PDF], which details the 167 data breaches disclosed in 2013 …
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