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Google CTF 2017 announced: Test your skills!
Google has announced the 2017 edition of its Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. As before, the event is divided into two rounds: The qualification round, to be held online on …
Introducing security into software through APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) can make life easier for software developers, allowing them to concentrate on what they do best and preventing them from being forced …
What’s really stopping users from adopting secure communication tools?
“Users’ goal to communicate with others overrides everything else, including security,” a group of researchers has concluded after interviewing sixty individuals …
US visa applicants will have to provide social media handles
US consular officials have been provided with a new questionnaire that they can give selected visa applicants to complete. Among other things, Form DS-5535 requires applicants …
New Gmail anti-phishing features rely on machine learning
Google has announced several new security features and improvement of existing ones in order to protect Gmail users against phishing emails. New features The new features are …
OneLogin suffers data breach, again
OneLogin, a popular single sign-on service that allows users to access thousands of popular cloud-based apps with just one password, has suffered what seems to be a serious …
Intelligence data, security credentials found exposed in the Amazon cloud
A data cache containing highly sensitive US military data has inadvertently been exposed online, UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery has discovered last week. After …
Hackers hosted tools on a Stanford University website for months
Compromising legitimate websites and the web servers that store and deliver them is a time-honoured tactic of opportunistic hackers, and a failure to keep them out can result …
Hackers blackmail patients of cosmetic surgery clinic
Hackers have been trying to blackmail patients of a Lithuanian plastic surgery clinic, by threatening to publish their nude “before and after” photos online. The …
Attacks within the Dark Web
For six months, Trend Micro researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web. The goal of their research was to see if those …
What will it take to keep smart cities safe?
“Smart cities” use smart technologies in their critical infrastructure sectors: energy, transportation, environment, communications, and government. This includes …
8 RCE, DoS holes in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine plugged
After the discovery and the fixing of a “crazy bad” remote code execution flaw in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine earlier this month, now comes another …
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