Bleeping Computer SeaChange International, a US-based leading supplier of video delivery software solutions, has confirmed a ransomware attack that disrupted its operations during the first quarter of 2020. The company is traded on NASDAQ as …
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WIRED It’s the evening of November 3rd. Election Day 2020. The polls have closed, and in-person vote totals are being reported, but millions of mail-in ballots, which skew heavily Democratic, won’t be counted for days …
Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Got This Election Stuff Under Control Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Some of the most important work we do at EFF is build technologies to protect users’ privacy and security, and give developers tools to make the entire Internet ecosystem more safe and …
Cryptographer and Entrepreneur Jon Callas Joins EFF as Technology Projects Director Read More »
ZDNet Google has removed this week an Android app from the Play Store that was used to collect personal information from Belarusians attending anti-government protests. The app, named NEXTA LIVE (com.moonfair.wlkm), was available for almost three weeks …
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WIRED A large part of your online life revolves around your email address. It acts as a central hub for almost everything you do: Travel documents and itineraries arrive there, it’s home to receipts for …
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Naked Security An article published on the open-to-allcomers blogging site Medium earlier this week has made for some scary headlines. Written as an independent research piece by an author going only by nusenu, the story …
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ZDNet The FBI and NSA have published today a joint security alert containing details about a new strain of Linux malware that the two agencies say was developed and deployed in real-world attacks by Russia’s …
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ZDNet The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block encrypted HTTPS connections that are being set up using modern, interception-proof protocols and technologies. …
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI Read More »
Bleeping Computer Online exam proctoring solution ProctorU has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor released a stolen database of user records on a hacker forum. ProctorU is a proctoring service used by companies and …
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WIRED In what appears to be a massive coordinated strike against Reddit, hackers took over dozens of pages on Friday afternoon, using their access to plaster pro-Donald Trump imagery across subreddits with huge followings. Coming …
WIRED No matter which browser you prefer—Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera, or any of the others—it will almost certainly offer an incognito or private mode, one which ostensibly keeps your web browsing secret. (Google Chrome …
Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You Think It Does Read More »
Naked Security The US Department of Justice just issued a press release entitled simply, “Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack.” In some ways, the Twitter hack referred to, which happened just two …