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Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations
3 Feb 2012 at 11:28am
Anonymous resumed today its F**k FBI Friday campaign by publishing a 16-minute-long mp3 recoding of a confidential conference call between representatives of both law enforcement agencies. The subjec...
Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook
3 Feb 2012 at 8:32am
A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook a...
Concerned about online privacy? FBI says you might be a terrorist
3 Feb 2012 at 6:52am
Being concerned about your online privacy might be a sign that you're up to no good, says the FBI and the US Department of Justice, via a collection of 25 fliers to be distributed to people working at...
VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community
3 Feb 2012 at 2:05am
VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Below are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans. Jon Callas, CTO for E...
The fusion of hardware encryption, PIN access and USB 3.0
3 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Apricorn expanded their Aegis Secure Drives to the desktop environment with a new desktop edition, the Aegis Padlock DT. Sporting a spacious capacity of up to 3 TB with a Super Speed USB 3.0 inte...
Netop updates remote support and management solution
2 Feb 2012 at 11:30pm
Netop unveiled the latest version of its remote support product, Netop Remote Control 11. Now with a new secure tunnel option, customers can extend their support and management capabilities by re...
Privacy and Big Data
2 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm
Much of what constitutes Big Data is information about us. Through our online activities, we leave an easy-to-follow trail of digital footprints that reveal who we are, what we buy, where we go, and m...
HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users' Wi-Fi password
2 Feb 2012 at 10:51am
A bug in the way some Android-running HTC smartphones handle requests for password allows some applications to send the user's Wi-Fi network username, password and SSID information to a remote server,...
Facebook survey scam bundled with phishing attempt
2 Feb 2012 at 8:41am
Facebook survey scammers have lately become great fans of browser add-ons that force scammy messages onto the victims' Wall and News feed, but in a recent campaign they went even further and are tryin...
Government website passwords published by Anonymous
2 Feb 2012 at 7:37am
As the moment when the new legislation for defending the rights of copyright holders regarding online sharing will be discussed is coming near, the Irish politician pushing it and the government itsel...

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