Snowden-inspired crypto-email service Lavaboom launches
Lavaboom, a new German-based and supposeldyNSA-proof email service, will go into private beta this week with a mission spread the gospel according to Edward Snowden by making encrypted email accessible to all. Although it has been referred to in various parts of the interwebs as an heir to Lavabit, the now-defunct encrypted email service used […] more…TrueCrypt audit finds "no evidence of backdoors" or malicious code
On Monday, after seven months of discussion and planning, the first-phase of a two-part audit of TrueCrypt was released. The results? iSEC, the company contracted to review the bootloader and Windows kernel driver for any backdoor or related security issue, concluded (PDF) that TrueCrypt has: “no evidence of backdoors or otherwise intentionally malicious code in […] more…Israeli group posts photos of not-so-Anonymous hackers
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online, during the organization’s OpIsrael hacking attack last week A hacker called Buddhax, a member of the Israeli Elite Force hacking group, posted the information on the IEF’s Facebook page Wednesday, two days after anti-Israel […] more…Bot masters in cut-throat DDoS fight
Botnet operators in the criminal underground are launching large denial of service attacks against each other in a bid to knock out rivals in the race to compromise computers. Security researchers have discovered command and control servers owned by operators of Zeus botnets were blasted by those running a rival Cutwail botnet in a distributed […] more…The Heartbleed bug is affecting routers, too
The Heartbleed Bug, a flaw in OpenSSL that would let attackers eavesdrop on Web, e-mail and some VPN communications, is a vulnerability that can be found not just in servers using it but also in network gear from Cisco and Juniper Networks. Both vendors say there’s still a lot they are investigating about how Heartbleed […] more…Microsoft drags customers ‘kicking and screaming’ into its world of faster updates
Microsoft’s demand that Windows 8.1 users install this week’s major update was another signal that the company is very serious about forcing customers to adopt its faster release strategy, experts said today. “Microsoft is going to drag organizations and users into this new world of faster updates kicking and screaming,” said Michael Silver of Gartner […] more…A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Mobility Management
Read the white paper to better understand the basic concepts within mobility management and to learn how you can apply EMM technology to your environment. read more more…Microsoft Updates April 2014 – Office and Internet Explorer Critical Vulnerabilities
Absolutely all of the latest versions of Microsoft Word and some versions of Internet Explorer maintain critical vulnerabilities enabling remote code execution. Today, Microsoft releases two critical patches to close multiple vulnerabilities with each. Two important updates are released to address a batch file handling issue and another RCE hole in Microsoft Publisher. All of […] more…Bitcoin akin to the Internet 20 years ago, digital currency executive says
Bitcoin today is like the Internet of 20 years ago, showing immense promise but in need of much more development, a digital currency executive said Monday, kicking off the Inside Bitcoins conference. As the first digital system offering the possibility to store and transfer currency value in “a completely distributed manner,” it holds the promise […] more…5-year-old hacks Xbox, now he’s a Microsoft ‘security researcher’
A 5-year-old San Diego boy has been commended by Microsoft for his security skills after finding a vulnerability in the company’s Xbox games console. Kristoffer Von Hasssel’s parents noticed earlier this year that he was logged into his father’s Xbox Live account and playing games he was not supposed to. Tags: Microsoft Security XBox more…Haswell saves another Ultrabook: the 2014 Toshiba Kirabook reviewed
Intel’s Haswell CPUs have been good to Ultrabook makers. Use them, and you get an essentially “free” battery life boost without sacrificing any performance. Most of the PC OEMs—Acer, Dell, Apple, and Lenovo among them—have simply dropped Haswell processors into lightly-modified versions of their Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks and called it a day. Tags: Intel Hardware […] more…Yahoo Bolsters Encryption Between Data Centers, Promises New, Encrypted Messenger In "Months"
This afternoon, Yahoo detailed progress relating to the encryption of its various web services and properties. Most importantly, Yahoo now “fully” encrypts data moving between its data centers, as of March 31. Yahoo was one of two companies that the NSA targeted with its MUSCULAR program, which tapped data cables between the foreign data centers […] more…Millions of home routers expose ISPs to DDoS attacks
DNS software specialist Nominum has revealed that DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks have significantly increased in the recent months, targeting vulnerable home routers worldwide. The research reveals that more than 24 million home routers have open DNS proxies which potentially expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks. Tags: Security DDoS more…Researchers uncover NSA tool, enables faster cracking of flawed RSA algorithm
In December 2013, RSA was accused – based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden – of entering into a secret $10 million agreement with the NSA to use a flawed encryption formula in its products, but a backdoor may not be all that was snuck in, according to researchers from various universities. “Evidence of an […] more…Apple updates Safari with enhanced push notification, new security features
Apple on Tuesday rolled out an update to its Safari Web Browser for Mac, with new features like enhanced push notification settings coming to users of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Perhaps most significant among Safari version 7.0.3’s new features is greater control over push notifications, which in the past required per-website management. Tags: Apple Safari more…California man who lasered two helicopters to face 14 years behind bars
Earlier this month, a Fresno man received what is believed to be the strongest sentence issued anywhere in the United States for firing a laser pointer at an aircraft—14 years in prison. His girlfriend was also convicted on similar charges, but she will not be sentenced until May 2014. “To our knowledge, it is the […] more…More information
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