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Researchers find, analyze forged SSL certs in the wild

A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook has managed to get a concrete sense of just how prevalent SSL man-in-the-middle attacks using forged SSL …

Why Google prefers numeric CAPTCHAs

Alphanumeric CAPTCHAs – those more or less difficult-to-read combinations that are used by many online services to discern whether a user is human or a bot – have …

Rolling Stones, One Direction fans scammed with fake free ticket offers

Rolling Stones and One Direction fans are being actively targeted by unscrupulous scammers, who encourage them to share a bogus offer of a free ticket to one of the …

Bitly breach details revealed

Bitly has released more details about the breach that made them reset user account credentials and disconnect all users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts late last week: …

A month after Heartbleed, many servers are still vulnerable

A month has passed since the existence of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug has been shared with the public. Given that this open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols …

Twitter makes password reset easier, account hijacking harder

Twitter has announced two changes aimed at helping protect user accounts and restore access to them. The company said that they are aware that many people reuse the same …

Bitly resets compromised credentials

URL shortening service Bitly has suffered a breach of yet undefined proportions, and it seems that Bitly account credentials have been compromised. Even though there is no …

US tech giants urge FCC to protect net neutrality

As the moment when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will decide the future of net neutrality draws near, over 100 Internet companies have sent an open letter to the …

Small businesses targeted with email-borne exploits

Even though the data gathered by Microsoft points to the fact that cybercriminals now prefer deceptive tactics to exploits, it does not mean that the latter approach has been …

Orange hacked again, 1.3M users affected

French telecom provider Orange has suffered a second data breach in less that four months, and this time the intruders made off with personal information of some 1.3 million …

Moves users get new privacy policy after Facebook deal

When Facebook acquired ProtoGeo Oy and its popular fitness app Moves, it was announced that “the Moves experience will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there …

4chan launches bug bounty program

In the wake of the recent data breach that spelled the end of art products Canvas and DrawQuest, 4chan founder and owner Chris “moot” Poole has announced that they …

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