Security News

Government Requests for Yahoo Data Up Slightly (Threatpost)

2015-09-25 18:40

Government requests for user data from Yahoo were up slightly over the first six months of 2015.

Mozilla Fixes 14-Year-Old Bug in Firefox 41 (Threatpost)

2015-09-25 17:53

Developers at Mozilla pushed out Firefox 41 this week and brought some much needed relief to AdBlockPlus users by finally fixing a 14-year old bug in the browser.

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New Attacks Recall Old Problems with Browser Cookies (Threatpost)

2015-09-25 15:18

DHS CERT published an alert prompted by a paper delivered at USENIX regarding the security of browser cookies.

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Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain (Threatpost)

2015-09-25 12:44

Researchers with Google and a handful of universities believe security practitioners need to focus on evaluating how cybercriminals adapt to interventions instead of trying to protect users.

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Mapping the underground cybercrime economy in order to disrupt it (Help Net Security)

2015-09-25 12:14

You've surely heard - everybody has - about the existence of an underground economy that allowed the proliferation of Internet crime. Many years ago cyber crooks could mostly rely on their own knowled...

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