Friday, June 6th, 2014
Malicious advertisements on domains belonging to Disney, Facebook, The Guardian newspaper and others are leading people to malware that encrypts a computer's files until a ransom is paid, Cisco Systems has found.
The finding comes shortly after technology companies and U.S. law enforcement banded together in a large operation to shut ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2014
A newly discovered vulnerability that allows spying on encrypted SSL/TLS communications has been identified and fixed in the widely used OpenSSL library.
The vulnerability, which is being tracked as CVE-2014-0224, can be exploited to decrypt and modify SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) traffic between clients and servers ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Security vendor ESET claims to have discovered the first ever piece of file-encrypting Android ransomware, which has an associated C&C server hosted on a TOR domain to hide its location.The malware, detected by the vendor as 'Android/Simplocker', is most likely a work in progress as the implementation of the encryption ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard.
Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
The recent effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet includes plans for Internet service providers to notify victims, but some security researchers think ISPs should play an even bigger role in the future by actively quarantining infected computers identified on their networks.
Law enforcement agencies from several countries including the FBI ...
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