Badly secured routers leave 79 percent of US home networks at risk of attack

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

As many as four out of five internet-connected households in the US could be at risk of attack through their wireless router. This is among the findings of a study by security specialist Avast which found that more than half of all home routers are poorly protected using default or easily ...

Secure Messaging Scorecard

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

In the face of widespread Internet surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products—but are these systems actually secure? We decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for ...

New Phishing Technique Outfoxes Site Owners: Operation Huyao

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

We’ve found a new phishing technique targeting online shopping sites that may significantly change the threat landscape for phishing sites. Conventional phishing sites require an attacker to replicate the targeted site; a more accurate copy is more likely to fool intended victims. This technique we found allows for the creation of ...

Facebook becomes directly accessible through Tor’s anonymity network

Friday, October 31st, 2014

Facebook has made it easier to access the social network through multiple layers of encryption and without disclosing your true location, by allowing direct access as a hidden service through Tor’s anonymity-focused browser. Tor sometimes comes up against the security mechanisms of sites — such as Facebook and banking sites — that ...

White House officials confirm breach on unclassified network

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that suspicious activity has been identified on the Executive Office of the President (EOP) network. The official, speaking to Reuters, said that mitigation efforts were ongoing, but declined to identify the exact nature of the problem. "In the course of assessing ...