Symantec partners with hosting providers to offer free TLS certificates to...
Symantec wants to see the encrypted Web grow and will offer free basic SSL/TLS certificates to domain owners through Web hosting companies that join its new Encryption Everywhere program. The company...
View ArticleAspect Achieves Top ISO Accreditation For Information Security Management
Press Release Aspect’s commitment to information security and continuous improvement is on display with its new ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 Information Security Management Systems Certification.This...
View ArticleHow to get started in IT security consulting
IT security consulting is an excellent way to grow as a security professional.In contrast to an corporate role, consultants are exposed to a variety of business situations and industries.Those who...
View ArticleAeriandi and Sage Pay Extend Relationship With New PCI-DSS Partner Agreement
Partnership will see the two companies sharing specialist skills and technical expertise to deliver industry leading PCI-DSS compliant voice solutions to customersOxford, 15 March 2016: Aeriandi, a...
View ArticleBig-name sites hit by rash of malicious ads spreading crypto ransomware...
Enlarge / If you're a gamer (or anyone else), this is not a screen you want to see.Bromium Labs Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling...
View ArticleGoogle Doubles Chromebook Bug Bounty to $100K
Google will also offer rewards for methods that bypass Chrome's Safe Browsing download protection features. Hunting for bugs in Google's Chrome OS just became a potentially more lucrative endeavor....
View ArticleGoogle Extends Single Sign-On Support for Hundreds of Apps
Preconfigured single sign-on is now available for hundreds of applications in the Google Apps Marketplace, including Office 365 and Facebook at Work. Google has added Microsoft Office 365, Facebook at...
View ArticleWhen graded on tech issues, 2016 presidential candidates don’t do well
EngineOn the same day that five key states voted in the presidential primaries, startup lobbying shop Engine took a close look at where the candidates stand on important tech issues like privacy, net...
View ArticleJuniper starts waving fixes for DROWN vuln
Turn off SSL, install patches, block traffic at firewalls Juniper Networks has identified products it says are vulnerable to the DROWN attack. DROWN turned up at the end of February, and is a relic of...
View ArticleuKnowKids Premier
ByNeil J. Rubenking How well do you know your kids? You may feel sure they're mature enough they won't be scarred for life by accidentally viewing websites that a typical parental control utility would...
View ArticleVMware vRealizes that vRealize has XSS bugs on Linux
Virtzilla's also released first maintenance release for vRealize Automation A tricky Tuesday for VMware's vRealize products, which have received the first maintenance release for version 7 and also...
View ArticleUK Snoopers’ Charter crashes through critics into the next level
Plans to write mass surveillance into law face a bumpy ride IPB The Investigatory Powers Bill – better known as the Snoopers' Charter – has passed its second reading in the UK Parliament amid fierce...
View ArticleBlundering ransomware uses backdoored crypto, unlock keys spewed
Hahah ... wait, what? A software developer whose example encryption code was used by a strain of ransomware has released the decryption keys for the malware. The unnamed software nasty scrambles users'...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice Charges Apple iCloud Hacker
Apple is vindicated as it turns out the celebrity accounts were compromised by a phishing attack and not a breach of Apple's data center. In September 2014, news first broke that somehow attackers were...
View ArticleUber won’t raise surge prices higher than 3.9x while DC Metro is shut down
UberThe nation's second-largest rapid transit system is shut down today, and ride-hailing service Uber has assured users it will cap its "surge" pricing at 3.9x. The Uber app automatically imposes...
View ArticleRights warriors slam US-Europe pact on personal info slurp, urge reforms
Privacy Shield needs substantial rewrite, say Amnesty, EFF, ACLU etc Civil liberty groups have decried the new Privacy Shield agreement that covers people's personal data flowing between Europe and the...
View ArticleAttackers exploit Apple DRM weakness to infect non-jailbroken iOS devices
Attackers are exploiting a weakness in Apple's digital rights management technology to install malicious apps on supposedly protected, non-jailbroken iOS devices.Although the targets appear to be in...
View ArticleApple tells iPhone court ‘the Founders would be appalled’ by Feds
Thomas Jefferson would kick your ass for this Apple's latest response to US Department of Justice (DoJ) demands that it alter its operating system to allow access to a terrorist's iPhone using the 1789...
View ArticlePa. Man Charged With Hacking Celeb Apple, Gmail Accounts
Ryan Collins's phishing scheme gave him illegal access to more than 100 Apple and Google email accounts. A Pennsylvania man was charged Tuesday with felony computer hacking related to the so-called...
View ArticleMost “hoverboards” set to be banned from US, courtesy of Segway
Phil / flickrA patent complaint that Segway filed with the US International Trade Commission in 2014 has resulted in a wide-ranging order banning "personal transporters" that infringe some of its...
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