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Evernote 2-step verification option now available to all users

Some four months after Evernote rolled out the 2-factor authentication feature for paying customers, the company has finally offered the option to the rest of its note-taking …

Microsoft hands out $128k in bug bounties

As the date of the release of the final version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8 and RT draws near, Microsoft has announced that it has paid out over $28,000 to six …

PureVPN users receive fake email saying authorities closed down the service

Over the weekend, customers of Hong Kong-based VPN service PureVPN were taken aback by an email that was seemingly sent by the company’s founder Uzair Gadit, saying that …

Brazil determined to stop NSA spying

Perhaps no country in the world has been as vocal about doing something about NSA’s global Internet surveillance reach as Brazil. As one of the fastest-growing major …

Adobe breached, customer info and source code compromised

Hackers have breached Adobe’s network and have made off with personal, account, and encrypted financial information of nearly 3 million Adobe customers, as well as the …

Silk Road taken down, owner arrested

Silk Road, the infamous black market drug website hidden in the so-called Deep Web, has been taken down, and its founder and owner arrested and charged for conspiracy to …

Researchers sinkhole half a million ZeroAccess bots

In a race against time and ZeroAccess developers and botmasters, Symantec researchers managed to sinkhole a large chunk of the infamous P2P-based botnet before its herders …

Facebook extends Graph Search to include posts, updates, comments

Since its launch earlier this year, Facebook Graph has slowly been filled with information about users. First came the interests they had, the locations they visited, the …

NSA creates US citizens’ profiles by collecting metadata, public and commercial data

In 2010, NSA analysts were instructed to disregard previous restrictions when it came to analyzing phone call and email logs belonging to Americans that had connections to …

Latest IE 0-day still unpatched, attacks exploiting it go back three months

While Microsoft is yet to issue a patch for the latest Internet Explorer zero-day (CVE-2013-3893), reports are coming in that the flaw has been exploited more widely and for a …

Two youngsters arrested for different DDoS attacks

Following the massive DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus earlier this year, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch …

Researchers may have solved the click fraud problem

Click fraud is a considerable drain on the finances of both advertiser and ad networks, but a group of researchers believed that they have managed to create a simple solution …

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