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Unredacted US diplomatic cables inadvertently leaked

Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s rationale behind his destruction of some 3,500+ unpublished files was that he had done it because Julian Assange and WikiLeaks could not …

Facebook pays bug hunters $40,000 in three weeks

The recently introduced Facebook bug bounty program has proved to be a great success, says Joe Sullivan, the company’s chief security officer. “We know and have …

USB 3.0 flash drive with 2 TB of storage

Transcend and ITRI unveiled a small USB stick that can offer up to 2 TB of storage.

Rogue Google SSL certificate allowed MITM Gmail attacks

Recently discovered attempts of an SSL man-in-the-middle attack against Google users – spotted by a number of Iranian Internet users – have revealed that Dutch …

2011: Year of the hack

In a year that IT security experts have labeled the “Year of the Hack,” Bit9’s endpoint survey of 765 IT executives revealed that Advanced Persistent Threat …

Security risks with 10Gb/s networks

A new survey shows that senior networking, operations and security professionals in telecommunications, online services, retail, manufacturing and healthcare have serious …

SDK for universal 2D and 3D object recognition

Neurotechnology announced SentiSight 3.0, a Software Development Kit (SDK) for universal object recognition. The object recognition algorithms now enable an even broader range …

WebSurgery: Suite for security testing of web applications

WebSurgery is a suite of tools for security testing of web applications. It was designed for security auditors to help them with the web application planning and exploitation. …

Many parents unaware if cyberbullying is an issue

While 89 percent of parents said they talk to their children about proper Internet safety, 40 percent do not know if cyberbullying is an issue at their child’s school, …

vOperations Suite 4: Clarity for cloud operations

VKernel released vOperations Suite 4, designed to provide operational clarity for cloud operators and enterprise data centers. This release introduces full Hyper-V …

Google servers as a DDoS tool

Google’s servers can be used by cyber attackers to launch DDoS attacks, claims R00T_ATI, a penetration tester for Italian security consulting firm AIR Sicurezza. He …

Hurricane Irene scams hit Facebook

As predicted, Hurricane Irene-themed scams have begun spreading on Facebook. The one spotted by Trend Micro fraud analyst Karla Agregado lures users in by offering a chilling …

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