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  • Dropbox Now Offers Two-Step Authentication

    Krebs on Security
    Online file-backup and storage service Dropbox has begun offering a two-step authentication feature to help users beef up the security of their accounts. The promised change comes less than a month after the compromise of a Dropbox employee's account exposed many Dropbox user email addresses.

  • New Adobe Flash Player Update Fixes 6 Flaws

    Krebs on Security
    For the second time in a week, Adobe has shipped a critical security update for its Flash Player software. This patch, part of a planned release, closes at least six security holes in the widely-used browser plugin, and comes just one week after the company rushed out a fix for a flaw that attackers were already exploiting in the wild.

  • Inside the Grum Botnet

    Krebs on Security
    KrebsOnSecurity has obtained an exclusive look inside the back-end operations of the recently-destroyed Grum spam botnet. It appears that the crime machine was larger and more complex than many experts had imagined. It also looks like my previous research into the identity of the Grum botmaster was right on target.

  • Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft

    Krebs on Security
    Adobe and Microsoft each issued security updates today to fix critical vulnerabilities in their software. Adobe's fixes include a patch for a Flash Player flaw that is actively being exploited. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release includes nine patch bundles -- more than half of them rated critical -- addressing at least 27 security holes in Windows and related software.