Obama wants help from tech firms to fight terrorism
U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking the help of tech companies to combat terror threats, which he described as entering a new phase. Obama’s remarks could put into sharp focus again the demand by law enforcement agencies for tech companies to provide ways for the government to be able to access encrypted communications. In an […] more…Let’s Encrypt Enters Public Beta
Free and open certificate authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt has entered public beta, making it even easier for websites to adopt the HTTPS encryption that the organization has been promoting since its inception. read more more…Target settles with banks for $39 million after epic data breach
Target has settled with banks, credit card companies and credit unions for $39m, pushing the total cost of the incident to around $300m. more…Millions of Internet Explorer users must update, or lose patches
The software giant will no longer update older versions of Internet Explorer, leaving millions without patches or security updates. more…BlackBerry gets bounced from Pakistan after saying no to backdoors
Earlier this week, BlackBerry announced it is leaving Pakistan after refusing to provide the country’s government with backdoor access to its customers’ communications. more…Millions of smart TVs, phones and routers at risk from old vulnerability
A three-year-old vulnerability in a software component used in millions of smart TVs, routers and phones still hasn’t been patched by many vendors, thus posing a risk, according to Trend Micro. Although a patch was issued for the component in December 2012, Trend Micro found 547 apps that use an older unpatched version of it, wrote […] more…Hacker Leaks Customer Data After a United Arab Emirates Bank Fails to Pay Ransom
A hacker who broke into a large bank in the United Arab Emirates made good on his threat to release customer data after the bank refused to pay a bitcoin ransom worth about $3 million. The hacker, who calls himself Hacker Buba, breached the network of a bank in Sharjah last month reportedly identified as […] more…Kazakhstan will force its citizens to install internet backdoors
The poorly thought-out and crude surveillance technique could have a devastating effect on the country’s internet security. more…How much money should you fork over to that internet cutie pie?
Answer: $ZERO! Be it a hunky “engineer” who needs a loan for “special machinery” or a sextortionist vixen who talked you into stripping. more…Symantec Pumps $50 Million into Security Operations Centers
Symantec said on Wednesday that it will invest $50 million to boost its cyber security services business globally, with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific region. read more more…37,000 websites selling counterfeit goods taken down in global effort
More than 37,000 websites, which were apparently selling counterfeit goods, have been closed down in an effort by global law enforcement. more…Quantum spin on molecular computers
If quantum computers existed, they would revolutionize computing as we know it. Based on fundamental properties of matter, the potential power of these theoretical workhorses would solve problems in a new way, cracking extremely complex spy codes and precisely modeling chemical systems in a snap. Researchers have now created cleverly designed molecules to get one […] more…Chrome 47 browser: Google pays out $105k in bug bounties, chops notification center
Google has rolled out its Chrome 47 web browser to stable channel users, offering 41 security fixes, 22 of which generated $105,000 in cash for security researchers. more…Apple pays out after Genius bar worker wipes honeymooner’s iPhone
For many of us, redoing photos of African rhinos and being bitten by a tortoise aren’t all that easy to come by. more…Chrome 47 brings new developer features, over $100,000 in security fixes, and removes the notification center
Google today launched Chrome 47 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with cooperative multitasking, automatic dismissal of desktop notifications, security improvements, and new developer features. It also removes the desktop notification center. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s built-in silent updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Tags: Chrome Google more…Unpatched Flaws Allow Hackers to Compromise Belkin Routers
A researcher has published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for several unpatched vulnerabilities affecting Belkin’s N150 wireless home routers. read more more…More information
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