StrongPity APT attack group booby-trapped WinRAR and TrueCrypt downloads
Kaspersky Lab revealed an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that is so focused on encrypted data and communications that it has been targeting and…
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TECH TUESDAY: Carnegie Mellon Engineers Hack Tor Network. (So, what’s the good news?)
Online anonymity and privacy, on the surface, would appear to be a completely cut-and-dry-black-and-white issue, but the argument for encryption of your online location…
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Why forcing Apple to break iPhone security is a bad idea
It’s widely agreed that the government should be able force a company to turn over information it possesses when there is reason to believe…
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Tech Tuesday: Apple’s Taste of Humble Pie as App Store Is Infected by Malware
Since 2003, Xcode has been at the core of program development for Apple OS X and iOS, and Apple has remained confident that their…
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Microsoft patches Windows zero-day found in Hacking Team’s leaked docs
Microsoft today issued one of its sporadic emergency, or “out-of-band,” security updates to patch a vulnerability in Windows — including the yet-to-be-released Windows 10…
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The Anatomy of a Cyber Attack on Government Systems
With fewer resources than the private sector, yet faced with the same threats, the U.S. government is dealing with a complex dilemma. Both the…
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Hacking Team gets hacked hard
The Italian Hacking Team, which sells software tools with zero-day exploits for secret surveillance purposes to law enforcement agencies, woke up to a living…
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A Brilliant Hack for Peeling Mango
Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we’re sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun. Today: Don’t fight…
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Rebuilding After A Breach
In 2014, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported that more than 85 million confidential files were compromised in data breaches. That’s 85 million customers,…
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