Security News

Mozilla Thinks That The Internet Is Under Attack, They Are Not Wrong (Forbes)
2017-02-03 17:36

Indian police bust $550 million internet scam that duped thousands (Yahoo Security)
2017-02-03 10:51

Turning to the internet to find customer support numbers? Be wary, especially for Facebook (TechRepublic)
2017-02-01 16:50

Security and the Internet of Things (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-01 14:05

Last year, on October 21, your digital video recorder ­- or at least a DVR like yours ­- knocked Twitter off the internet. Someone used your DVR, along with millions of insecure webcams, routers,...

Forgotten passwords are bane of the Internet. Facebook wants to fix that (ArsTechnica)
2017-01-31 01:35

How Is The Internet Doing? Mozilla's Ambitious Check-Up Effort (Forbes)
2017-01-30 10:20

Obama's Legacy in Internet Security (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-23 12:55

NextGov has a nice article summarizing President Obama's accomplishments in Internet security: what he did, what he didn't do, and how it turned out....

Mozilla’s First Internet Health Report Tackles Security, Privacy (Threatpost)
2017-01-21 14:00

Mozilla released its first Internet Health Report, examining the dangers of over-sharing eroding privacy, and the security of connected devices.

Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-13 12:48

Interesting research: Sebastian Hellmeier, "The Dictator's Digital Toolkit: Explaining Variation in Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes," Politics & Policy, 2016 (full paper is behind a...

Internet freedom around the world keeps decreasing (Help Net Security)
2016-11-23 20:05

For the sixth year in a row, Internet freedom is declining. According to the latest Freedom on the Net report, 67 percent of all Internet users now live in countries where online criticism of the...