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RIAA’s sites downed by Anonymous DDoS attack

Anonymous continues its Operation Payback and has DDoSed two official websites belonging to the Recording Industry Association of America. Riaa.com and riaa.org have been …

Facebook discovers and “punishes” UID-selling developers

The recent discovery that some Facebook application were inadvertently forwarding users’ UIDs to advertising agencies and data collection companies has spurred the …

New DDoS Trojan used for downing dissident sites

A new DDoS Trojan connected with a slew of attacks against Vietnamese blogs has been discovered by SecureWorks. Dubbed Vecebot, the Trojan drops three files into the …

Secure USB drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7

Spyrus released a secure USB flash drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7 pre-installed. Unlike other USB flash drives that run the Windows operating system, the Secure Pocket …

RAID tower with hardware encryption

Addonics announced a family of Cipher Raid Towers with AES 256-bit full disk hardware encryption, a solution for applications that require reliable storage with redundancy and …

Week in review: Mac OS X Trojan, Bredolab shutdown and Firefox add-on for hijacking online accounts

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial “When it …

Privacy and cleaning tool CCleaner 3.0 released

CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet …

One in five card holders use birth date as PIN

Remembering passwords may seem the biggest problem you have when managing your e-mail or social network account, but that’s only because you don’t really believe …

Obama Administration gets a “B” for cybersecurity

The Electronic Privacy Information Center released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration and – when compared to last year’s results – …

A peek into Google’s anti-malware operation

Google goes to great lengths to secure its users from threats lurking on the Web, because a half-hearted effort would soon drive them out of business. But, during his …

Microsoft contemplating SSL for Bing

HTTP session hijacking as a possibility and tools to execute it have been around for more than half a decade, but it took an easy-to-use Firefox add-on like Firesheep to point …

Telstra’s blunder leads to massive data leak

It is yet unknown if it was a human or computer error that made Australian telecommunications and company Telstra send out letters containing personal information (name, phone …

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