Twitter fixed a cross-site scripting flaw in its popular TweetDeck application Wednesday, after millions of users were hit with a malicious script targeting the vulnerability. The vulnerability allowed anyone to…
DetailsThere is a new exploit in OpenSSL that can allow a man-in-the-middle (MITM) to intercept and decrypt traffic and modify traffic between the vulnerable client and server, according to an…
DetailsLinkedIn announced in April that it had surpassed 300 million users. While LinkedIn has become a valuable networking tool and even somewhat of a useable social networking platform, especially its…
DetailsMy 14 year-old-car finally died, so I bit the bullet and bought a new one – with bells and whistles. The new car has keyless entry, keyless start, integrates with my…
DetailsThe US department of Justice has announced with not just a touch of self congratulations that they have taken down the Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker botnets. The Gameover Zeus malware…
DetailsThe sudden and inexplicable demise of the popular TrueCrypt product is raising eyebrows this week. TrueCrypt was a free encryption product supported by anonymous developers. There was quite a bit…
DetailsEdward Snowden did an important thing: He made an important conversation on security and ethics popular and international. On one hand, he told us something we always knew: Spies spy. That…
DetailsThe widely used open-source TrueCrypt encryption program is “not secure” and should not be used, according to SourceForge, one of the official webpages for TrueCrypt. The announcement posted at truecrypt.sourceforge.net…
DetailsNational Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden called himself a patriot who simply was defending the constitution during an interview with NBC “Nightly News” broadcast on Wednesday. The former NSA…
DetailsF5 Networks has acquired privately held cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation provider Defense.Net for an undisclosed sum, according to a press release. F5 said it took the move to…
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