Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
One of the official webpages for the widely used TrueCrypt encryption program says that development has abruptly ended and warns users of the decade-old tool that it isn't safe to use.
"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues," text in red at the top of ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
People accessing the Internet over open WiFi networks are now vulnerable to having their WordPress webpage hijacked even with two-step authentication enabled. This new vulnerability was found by Yan Zhu, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Zhu found that when accessing WordPress, the site sends a cookie in plain text ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
We’ve become aware of some unauthorized access to our systems and internal company data and we wanted to let you know the steps we’re taking in response. As soon as we were aware of this issue we immediately launched an investigation. Information security and data protection are of great importance ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
Prague-based antivirus company Avast said Monday it took its community forum offline after a data breach, but payment information was not compromised.
Usernames and nicknames, email addresses and encrypted passwords were obtained in an attack over the weekend, wrote Avast CEO Vince Steckler on a company blog. The attack affected less than 400,000 ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data. After conducting extensive tests on its networks, the company said it has no evidence of the compromise ...
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