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Written by David Kravets / Courtesy of Wired.com The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups have decried as a threat to civil liberties. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), passed on a vote of 248 to 168. Its goal is a more secure internet, but privacy...
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Written By Kim Zetter / Courtesy of Wired.com In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well as several progressive rights groups. The server was seized from a co-location facility in New York with a search...
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Word is getting out that Mac is getting its dose of viruses although the truth is they weren’t really all that safe in the first place, just safer by comparison. Security is never really a thing we leave to the manufacturers because if we did, it would be at our peril. New forms of viruses, trojans, malware and clickjacking storm the Web every day compromising servers and records, stealing...
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By Christina Bonnington / Courtesy of Wired.com Mac users were once relatively insulated from malware attacks, if only because their OS platform didn’t attract the attention of criminals. But now a spike in security threats is making it clear that the bad guys are no longer ignoring Apple’s OS X. The latest Mac security threat, a variant of the “LuckyCat” attack, takes advantage of an...
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An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia’s ABC1. Video courtesy of Patrick Clair Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair patrickclair.com Written by: Scott Mitchell Production Company: Zapruder’s Other...
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The Kill Switch Comes to the PC A feature common in phones will let Microsoft remotely disable malware By Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg Business Week Janne Kytömäki, a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google’s (GOOG) Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. It was...
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Check out this informative & entertaining video regarding malware, featured on the BBC’s program “Click”: Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. Experts say customers should follow banks’ official advice, use up-to-date anti-virus software and be vigilant. Spencer Kelly...
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One of our favorite security blogs, F-Secure, recently posted the following informative article regarding some new malicious methods of Facebook spammers. Firefox and Chrome are used as avenues to further spread the scam via Facebook by use of a fraudulent YouTube browser plugin. A fake Facebook page displays a plugin installation if visited from either of those two browsers. Facebook is recently...
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Courtesy of F-Secure.com: Brod, a researcher on the Threat Research team over at F-Secure.com has been tasked with tracking emerging Mac based threats. Microsoft Excel is one of the tools he uses to chart variants. From April to December 2011, there have been several dozen new Mac threats. Well, that’s nothing when compared to Windows malware — but it’s definitely something when...
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