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Malware used in Target breach sold on underground forums

Target continues to be rather tight-lipped about the circumstances of the massive user data theft and the breach of their networks that made it possible, but the few details …

New technology searches encrypted data in its encrypted form

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a technology that can perform concealed searches of encrypted data in its encrypted form. Searching data while it is …

Microsoft extends support for Win XP’s security solutions to mid-2015

Despite having announced earlier this month that they would stop providing signature updates for Security Essentials for Windows XP in April 8, 2014 – the same date when …

Explosive growth of advanced attacks and malicious traffic

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, released today, reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks …

Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible

Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer …

Starbucks iOS app stores passwords in clear text

A security researcher has discovered that Starbuck’s iOS mobile application stores users’ usernames, email address and passwords in clear text, and has tried to …

Blackphone to put privacy and control first

Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced Blackphone, a smartphone placing privacy and control directly in the hands of its users. Blackphone, powered by a security-oriented …

Scammers bypass protection mechanism, offer trojanized Minecraft Android app

Russian Android users who are looking to download the popular Minecraft game app from third-party app markets should be very careful, F-Secure researchers told PC Magazine, as …

Amazon and GoDaddy are the biggest malware hosters

The United States is the leading malware hosting nation, with 44 percent of all malware hosted domestically, according to Solutionary. The U.S. hosts approximately 5 times …

User financial info compromised in US Fund for Unicef breach

The US Fund for Unicef, a non-profit NGO headquartered in New York, has notified the Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General that it had suffered a breach in November …

US Federal Court deals a blow to net neutrality

With a verdict of 3-to-0, judges of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit have decided to strike down the Federal Communications Commission’s Open …

Security concerns are still holding back cloud adoption

There are significant differences in public cloud infrastructure concerns between the cloud-wise, organizations that are currently using cloud services, and the cloud-wary, …

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