It appears that everyone is part of one social network or another. Facebook alone has reported to have 955 million monthly active users and 543 million monthly active mobile users. Engagement online has become a must, with social networking prompting users to share every detail of their existence, from their hometowns to their favorite quotes. [...]
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When news broke last week that one million Apple UDIDs had been stolen by hacktivists, users panicked: What is a UDID? How did personally identifiable info get leaked along with the UDIDs? How can I protect my personally identifiable information? What is a UDID? On its own, the UDID is just a glorified unique serial [...]
Recently it was announced via posts in underground forums and Pastebin posts that a new version of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK), version 2.0, had been released. (The original announcement was in Russian; an English translation has been provided by researcher Denis Laskov and may be found here.) We cannot confirm that BHEK 2.0 has [...]
Some parents call it an invasion of privacy akin to tracking cattle, and a coalition of privacy and civil liberties organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union has called for a moratorium on the technology. What do you think?
Ransomware is malicious software that attempts to extort money out of unsuspecting users, but lately there has been a trend of a more sinister type of ransomware: crypto-ransomware.