Sunday, August 4th, 2013
If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would ...
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
At Opera Software, we are committed to the security and privacy of our users. This is paramount to us, and as such, we want to share the details of a recent incident with you.
On June 19th we uncovered, halted and contained a targeted attack on our internal network infrastructure. Our ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released as an Internet standard -- but despite support from some high-profile websites, adoption elsewhere is still low.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) allows websites to declare themselves accessible ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
An unpatched critical security vulnerability in Microsoft's software, which means that users' computers can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer, is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. Alongside last week's regular Patch Tuesday announcement (including a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers ...
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
HTTPS Everywhere is a produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links ...
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