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Widespread Encryption Weakness Discovered After 2 Years
Researchers from Google and security firm Codenomicon released details yesterday on a staggering security hole in one of the fundamental security technologies used by hundreds of thousands of websites around the world. Dubbed the “Heartbleed Bug”, this vulnerability is found within a code library called OpenSSL – a tool almost universally used in Linux-based webservers,
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XP Support ends April 8
In case you haven’t heard, about a third of the world’s computers are about lose official support from Microsoft on April 8. Any computer running Windows XP will no longer receive updates or fixes to any vulnerabilities discovered after the cutoff date. Microsoft will continue to provide limited support to its XP-compatible security products, like
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MS Office for the iPad is here
It feels strange to be writing about Microsoft and not mentioning a security loophole or zero-day exploit, but it is the day before April Fool’s after all. Fortunately for the iPad faithful, this isn’t a prank. On March 27, Microsoft launched iPad versions of it’s most used office productivity applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint, all
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Your email is not private
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, most will leap to the conclusion that I’m writing about the ongoing government snooping that seems to permeate the internet these days. Unfortunately, another of the tech industry’s dirty little secrets is being dragged out into the light of day, and it’s something you’ve
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MS Word zero-day exploit in the wild
Microsoft has released a security advisory that warns of a new zero-day weakness that is currently being exploited on the internet. Depending on how you interpret their choice of wording – “targeted attacks” – the scale seems to be relatively limited for the moment, but given that the compromised app is Microsoft Word and is
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Grad students build Google Glass spy app
From the moment it was announced, Google Glass has been a favorite target in the growing privacy debate in our always-online and increasingly less-private society. Initially, privacy advocates were worried that Glass wearers could record others without their permission or even awareness. Now, we have to worry about the possibility that the device itself could
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