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Apple Finally HTTPS Encrypts the iOS App Store
For the past nine months—and possibly for years—Apple has unnecessarily left many of its iOS customers open to attack because engineers failed to implement standard technology that encrypts all traffic...
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Google Fined $7 Million in Maps’ Street View Privacy Settlement
Google will be fined $7 million as part of a privacy settlement regarding its Street View car fleet’s collection of passwords, messages and other sensitive data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks as it...
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Google’s Going to Teach the U.S. How to Use Passwords
Remember a few years ago when Google got itself in that whole little Street-View-cars-collecting-personal-Wi-Fi-network-data debacle? Well, it looks like the case is finally being settled, and it’s not...
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Apple Releases iOS 6.1.3 to Fix Screen Vulnerability Bug
The update states that it includes improvements and other bug fixes including “fixing a bug that could allow someone to bypass the passcode and access the iPhone app”. The issue could allow anyone who...
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The Legislation of Privacy: New Laws That Will Change Your Life
Technology is changing how we do everything, from connecting with friends to investigating our family history. While most of these changes are for the better, the reality is that many of these new...
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New Adware Trojan Targets Mac OS X Computers
A new Mac OS X Trojan is making the rounds, installing an adware plug-in that renders ads on Web pages to generate revenue for its author. Dubbed Trojan.Yontoo.1, it is the most prominent of an...
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Decade-Old Malware Found to Target Government Computers
Researchers have unearthed a decade-long espionage operation that used the popular TeamViewer remote-access program and proprietary malware to target high-level political and industrial figures in...
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Apple Brings Two-Step Verification to Apple ID, iCloud
It’s been a strong selling point from Google for security-minded users, and now Apple has finally come on board with a two-step verification process for Apple ID and iCloud users. Not surprisingly, the...
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Walled Cities & Gunpowder, Firewalls & Hackers: Ways to Think About Cyber...
Defensive walls have been built around cities since before Joshua fought the battle of Jericho. For literally thousands of years, if you wanted to protect a collection of assets (people, livestock,...
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Microsoft: We’re Not Giving Away ‘Free Xbox Points,’ That’s a Scam
If you see anyone peddling ‘free Xbox points,’ steer clear. Microsoft announced that nefarious folks are out in force, attempting a farce based on the company’s birthday week: ‘Microsoft’s 38 now, and...
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North Korea’s Twitter, Flickr Accounts Were Hacked by Anonymous
A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea’s official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were...
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Major Skype, Dropbox Security Hole Patched
Nir Goldshlager just saved your identity. One of the world’s top white hat security researchers, Goldshlager this week helped Skype and Dropbox fix a critical security flaw that could have let hackers...
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Shelly Palmer talks about Anonymous and cyberattacks in North Korea and Israel on CNNi’s Quest Means Business.
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Vudu Offices Burglarized, Hard Drives With User Info Stolen
Usually when customer info is snatched up by a ne’er-do-well, it’s done digitally. Video streaming service Vudu, however, was the victim of an old fashioned burglary on March 24th of this year when...
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Exploit in Some Linksys Routers Leaves Them Vulnerable to Takeover
Some versions of a popular Wi-Fi router sold under the Linksys brand expose users to a variety of exploits that allow remote attackers to take full control of the devices, a security expert said. The...
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Hacker: One Android Phone Can Crash a Plane
A hacker claims that a single Android handset can be used to hijack an entire plane, Net-Security reported. Security consultant and trained commercial pilot Hugo Teso explained during a speech at the...
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Bing’s Search Results Yield Five Times More Malicious Sites than Google
Not all search engines are created equal—and when it comes to Microsoft’s Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google. An 18-month project by German...
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Android Malware Infections Tripled from 2011 to 2012
Anyone developing malicious software for mobile devices has set his or her sights almost exclusively on Android at this point. Mobile security vendor NQ has found that Android devices infected with...
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Microsoft Adds Two-Step Verification to its Online Accounts
Microsoft announced that it has launched two-step authentication for its Microsoft accounts. This optional feature, which will roll out to all Microsoft accounts over the next few days, works pretty...
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Amazon Patents Anonymous Transaction System
A new patent published by the USPTO (via PhoneArena) indicates that Amazon is looking into a way to limit the amount of data exchanged when two parties engage in a mobile payment transaction. The...
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