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UK dating fraud victims lost £33,5 million last year

Action Fraud, UK’s national fraud and Internet crime reporting centre, and the City of London Police have started a Twitter campaign with the aim of teaching people …

.onion officially registered as special-use domain name by the IETF

By publishing the RFC 7686 standard, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally recognized the .onion domain as a special-use domain name. “Over the last …

Domain name holders hit with personalized, malware-laden suspension notices

A clever new email spam campaign has been spotted targeting domain name holders, trying to trick them into downloading malware on their systems.The emails take the form of a …

Hackers put up for sale 13 million plaintext passwords stolen from 000webhost

000webhost, a popular free web hosting service, has suffered a data breach that resulted in the compromise of the name, email address and plaintext password of some 13 million …

Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and …

US Library of Congress makes tinkering with your car software legal

The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works. But, there are …

Europe’s new “net neutrality” regulation is full of loopholes

The European Parliament voted yesterday for a Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications. The new regulation brings a complete ban on roaming charges for …

How can we decide on surveillance and privacy when we can’t see the whole picture?

“The surveillance of communications faces a legitimization crisis,” says James Losey, a fellow with the Open Technology Institute, the technology program of the …

Regin spyware found on German Chancellery staff’s personal laptop

The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office has started an investigation regarding the discovery of the infamous Regin backdoor on the private laptop owned by a staff member …

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Review: Google Earth Forensics

Learn how to use Google Earth geo-location in your digital forensic investigations.

TalkTalk hack: Teenager arrested in Northern Ireland

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from the TalkTalk website.“On Monday, 26 October, at …

SHA-2 encryption will make many sites inaccessible to users who can’t afford newer tech

A group of security researchers has recently announced that it’s highly likely that effective collision attacks that would break SHA-1 encryption will be revealed by the …

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