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Pirate Bay founder raising money for new encrypted messaging app
Peter Sunde, one of the Pirate Bay co-founders, is looking to enter the encrypted messaging market. Spurred by the recent revelations about the US government’s PRISM …
Facebook scam packs double whammy
A new phishing / malware delivery scam is doing rounds on Facebook, warns ThreatTrack’s Chris Boyd. The lure is a message saying “I’m serious guys If you …
Microsoft gives app developers 180 days to fix bugs
This month’s Patch Tuesday has been a prolific one, and patches for a total of 34 vulnerabilities – six of which critical – have been made available for …
No more disconnection penalty for French file sharers
HADOPI, the French “three strikes” law for promoting the distribution and protection of creative works on the Internet, has been changed and can no longer be used …
EPIC petitions US Supreme court to stop NSA domestic phone spying
The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed on Monday a petition with the US Supreme Court asking it to put a stop to the disclosure of the …
POC code for critical Android bug published
Last week, researchers from Bluebox Security have made a disconcerting revelation: Google’s Android mobile OS carries a critical bug that allows attackers to modify the …
Privacy policy changes allow AT&T to sell user data
AT&T, the largest provider of mobile telephony in the United States, has recently announced several changes in their Privacy Policy to allow the sale of anonymized user …
“Google account hacked” text scam puzzles researchers
A curious spamming campaign continues to target Google users via their mobile phones, and researchers still don’t know what it actually does. First spotted back in …
The magnitude of Android’s “master key” bug
The Android flaw whose existence was revealed last week by Bluebox Security is as bad as they come. “Blowing hash and signing functions so that the underlying code can …
Mass login attempts compromise 24,000 Nintendo site accounts
Some 24,000 user accounts – but luckily no user financial information – were compromised in mass login attempts to the Club Nintendo website. The global website is …
Multi-platform Java RAT targeting government agencies
A new spear-phishing campaign targeting government agencies mostly in the US, Canada, Australia, a few European countries and the Russian Federation has been spotted by …
“Pinterest Tool” scam aimed at stealing login credentials
Last week we warned about fake “Password changed” emails targeting users of the popular photo-sharing website, but there has been a general uptick in …
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