Saturday, November 23rd, 2013
Twitter has implemented new security measures that should make it much more difficult for anyone to eavesdrop on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead.
The company has implemented "perfect forward secrecy" on its Web and mobile platforms, it said Friday. The ...
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
We’ve asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA’s unlawful surveillance of your communications. We’re pleased to see that four companies—Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five of our best practices for encryption. In addition, we appreciate ...
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Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Sending data in plain text just doesn't cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web--Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.--have already embraced default encryption to safeguard your precious data, and the next-gen version of the crucial HTTP protocol will only work ...
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Cracked.com, a humor website that is among the 300 most popular sites in the U.S., may have left visitors a sobering surprise this week.
According to Barracuda Labs, as of Sunday the website was compromised to host the Nuclear Pack exploit kit.
Daniel Peck, principal research scientist on the security team at Barracuda Labs, ...
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
Symantec Security Response has discovered many Instagram users have willingly shared their usernames and passwords to a bot-like app in order to increase likes and followers.
The application known as InstLike was available for iOS and Android devices. It could be found in both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. ...
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