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Help Net Security - News
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Help Net Security is a daily updated security related site. We offer information on the latest happenings in the InfoSec world, advisories, viruses, papers, and more. HNS also has a large download section of security tools for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Pocket PC.
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Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware
If you spot a Facebook friend of yours worrying about and linking to news about the US attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia, curb your curiosity and don't follow the link if you don't want to get served wi...
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Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams
Hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost have been compromised and are used to redirect users to a Russian scam page, warns Zscaler.
Whether or not this is the result of the recent compromise of on...
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Week in review: Reactions to VeriSign hack, Anonymous leaks FBI conference call, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles:
The F-BOMB: A tiny $50 spying computer for DARPA
As ShmooCon's visitors have witnessed on Friday ...
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Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations
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 the FBI and the Scotland Yard. The subjec...
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Server-side polymorphic Android apps
Server-side polymorphism as a technique to serve unique malware versions that evade signature-based detection to Windows users is used by many malware peddlers on a regular basis, but Symantec resear...
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Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook
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...
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Kelihos botnet rises up again
Kelihos - the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead - is back and working.
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Concerned about online privacy? FBI says you might be a terrorist
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...
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Google reveals it is already scanning Android apps for malware
Even though most malicious Android apps are served from third-party app markets, cyber crooks occasionally manage to disseminate some via Google's official Android Market.
Security experts have ...
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VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community
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...
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The fusion of hardware encryption, PIN access and USB 3.0
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...
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Netop updates remote support and management solution
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...
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Privacy and Big Data
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...
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HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users' Wi-Fi password
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,...
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Facebook survey scam bundled with phishing attempt
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...
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Review: Network Warrior, 2nd Edition
Author: Gary A. Donahue
Pages: 786
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 1449387861
Introduction
If you are interested in knowing everything that you can possibly know about networking, chances...
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Government website passwords published by Anonymous
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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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 released
The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
The OS X Lion 10.7.3 Upda...
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Security breaches driving authentication changes
Recent security breaches and deployment of new technologies are driving organizations to re-evaluate incumbent authentication vendors and re-think their authentication strategies, according to SafeNet...
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Multi-factor authentication for mobile users
DigitalPersona announced the newest version of DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise has support for a variety of new authentication credentials. With the software, organizations can now mix and match differe...
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