Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying With PRISM
A secret and scrappy court battle that Yahoo launched to resist the NSA’s PRISM spy program came to an end in 2008 because the Feds...
Akamai Warns of IptabLes and IptabLex Infection on Linux, DDoS attacks
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 3, 2014 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications,...
WANTED: Russian Evgeniy Bogachev sought over cybercrime botnet
The US has charged a Russian man with being behind a major cybercrime operation that affected individuals and businesses worldwide. Evgeniy Bogachev, said to be...
Cryptolocker: what you need to know
What happens when a computer is infected with the malicious software or a virus, and what should you do to protect your files? Cryptolocker is...
N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on...
Library: New Section added
We added a Multi-OS section, with one of the best pieces of software I think I've seen come along for a while now. PREY -...
How To Avoid CryptoLocker Ransomware
Over the past several weeks, a handful of frantic Microsoft Windows users have written in to ask what they might do to recover from PC...
Facebook Pushes Passwords One Step Closer to Death
October has always been John Flynn’s favorite time of year, but this year, it’s even better. He gets to spend the month trying to hack...
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malware that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor...
SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, And The Flaw Could Affect Millions Of Phones
Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone...