Pwn2Own 2016: Chrome, Edge, and Safari hacked, $460,000 awarded in total

Saturday, March 19th, 2016

Once again, major browsers fell at the two-day security contest Pwn2Own. Security flaws in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari were all successfully exploited. A total of $460,000 was awarded for 21 vulnerabilities across the three browsers as well as Windows, OS X, and Flash. Last year’s total was ...

Google Security Expert Criticizes Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

Over the weekend, one of Google's top security researchers, Tavis Ormandy, published a blog post in which he criticized antivirus certification programs that award meaningless prizes to flawed security products. His problem came from the fact that at this year's RSA security conference held at the start of March, Verizon's ICSA ...

First Mac-targeting ransomware hits Transmission users

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

A security research firm announced Sunday its discovery of what is believed to be the world’s first ransomware that specifically goes after OS X machines. "This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” Ryan Olson, of Palo Alto Networks, told ...

Gmail’s new security indicators

Thursday, February 11th, 2016

Google added two new security indicators to its email service Gmail which reveal TLS encryption support and whether the sender could be authenticated. Many popular email services, including Gmail, support TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption to protect data while it is in transit. TLS is only useful if both the sending and ...

Awesome VPN Comparison Chart

Sunday, January 31st, 2016

Here's a great VPN comparison chart showing various details such as logging, location, privacy, security and pricing.  Excellent resource to bookmark. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true