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Mobile Pwn2Own 2014: Windows Phone’s sandbox resists attack
The Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 hacking competition, held at the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo, Japan, was concluded on Thursday, and not one of the targeted phones has …
Facebook updates terms and policies, introduces interactive privacy guides
Facebook continues with its plan to make the social network’s privacy settings easier to understand, and has introduced Privacy Basics. Private Basics is a page where …
Americans’ privacy behaviors and attitudes in the post-Snowden era
Most Americans are aware of and worried about government efforts to monitor communications and access their data but, interestingly enough, they still look to the government …
ISPs are removing encryption from customers’ emails
A number of ISPs in the US and Thailand have recently been spotted actively removing encryption from their customers’ data sent to email servers, the Electronic Frontier …
Latest Microsoft patches crucial for all Windows users
Microsoft has closed a great many flaws, including a 0-day abused by the Sandworm team, in November’s Patch Tuesday. But there is another vulnerability that you should …
SAP finally patches critical, remotely exploitable bugs in GRC solution
More than a year and a half after they have been reported to SAP AG, the company has issued a patch for a number of critical exploitable security vulnerabilities in its …
German spy agency wants to buy and use 0-day bugs
The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) – Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service – has asked a parliamentary oversight committee for big money to buy …
Personal info of 800,000 USPS employees compromised in breach
The US Postal Service has joined the ranks of private sector companies and governmental agencies that have been breached and had data stolen by hackers. According a statement …
Obama backs net neutrality, asks FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility
The US president has sided with net neutrality advocates and has encouraged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify consumer broadband service from a …
BrowserStack hacked, but it’s not shutting down
BrowserStack, the popular cross browser testing service used by over 25,000 customers around the world, including Microsoft, eBay, Adobe, Wikipedia and many others, has …
While rare, manual account hijacking is more damaging
Online accounts are a valuable resource for scammers: not only do they often contain additional personal and financial information about their owners, but they are also a …
China is building a quantum encryption network between Beijing and Shanghai
The race for setting up a secure long-distance communication network based on quantum encryption is on, and China is currently in the lead, reports Malcolm Moore. After the …
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