Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced for hacking Swedish companies
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been found guilty of hacking into Swedish IT company Logica and the Nordea bank mainframe and has been sentenced to two years in …
Cookie Clearinghouse to enable user choice for online tracking
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School launched a new online privacy initiative called the Cookie Clearinghouse, which will empower Internet users to …
Yahoo ID recycling could lead to trouble
Yahoo has announced that coming July 15th, any Yahoo email account / Yahoo ID that hasn’t been logged into for over a year will be “freed up” and can be …
CloudSigma introduces transparent private patching to public cloud
CloudSigma launched CloudSigma 2.0, a next-generation public cloud that enables high-performance hybrid environments. Direct private patch/hybrid cloud capability: CloudSigma …
Ultra-fast online backup from GFI Software
GFI Software announced GFI MAX Backup, a service that enables all MSPs to add secure data backup to the services they can offer customers at a time when demand for secure …
Tool for IT challenges and legal requests
Kroll Ontrack announced Ontrack PowerControls 7.0. Complete with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 support as well as new functionality for …
Microsoft to pay up to 150k for vulnerabilities
After years of saying that bug bounties are not the best way to go about getting crucial product vulnerability information in the long run, Microsoft has done an about-face …
Collected data helped foil 50 terrorist plots, says NSA chief
A number of top government officials have been called to testify at a congressional hearing before U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the topic of NSA …
65+ websites compromised to deliver malvertising
At least 65 different sites serving ads that ultimately led to malware have been spotted by Zscaler researchers. The massive malvertising campaign started with injected code …
Thwarting facial recognition systems with privacy visors
Despite Google announcement that it won’t allow facial recognition on Google Glass (yet) and Facebook turning it off (just in Europe), every person should be aware that …
Customized spam uses cell phone users’ data against them
US mobile spammers are using cell phone users’ personal data to launch invasive, highly targeted attacks, according to AdaptiveMobile. For the first time, mobile …
Employees biggest IT threat to businesses
Despite British small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) providing training in IT and security, employees fail to prevent breaches and data leaks, according to McAfee. Even …