Security News

Firefox loses opportunistic encryption feature due to critical flaw (Help Net Security)
2015-04-07 14:50

Less than a week after it made Firefox 37 available for download, Mozilla is pulling one of the security features it implemented. Mozilla is urging users to update again, to Firefox version 37.0.1,...

New crypto-ransomware "quarantines" files, downloads info-stealer (Help Net Security)
2015-04-07 13:24

Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for ransom and, finally, dow...

How to keep your Facebook account secure (Help Net Security)
2015-04-07 12:02

When last November Facebook asked users to comment the proposed changes to the social network's terms of use, data policy, and cookies policy, it also introduced Privacy Basics, a page offering easy-t...