March 16, 2017
Via: Naked SecurityFacebook and Instagram have turned off the data faucet for surveillance. On Monday, Facebook, which owns Instagram, announced that it had updated its rules to clearly explain that developers can’t “use data obtained from us to provide tools that are […]
November 23, 2016
Via: The HillNational Security Agency Director Mike Rogers said Sunday that he does not believe the publication of stolen Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. “I don’t think in the end it had the effect […]
October 7, 2016
Via: Computer WeeklyTerror groups, not nation states, are the most likely to unleash devastating cyber weapons, according to Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and co-founder of security firm Kaspersky Lab. “I am 99.99% sure some nation states have developed top secret cyber weapons,” […]
September 23, 2016
Via: Security WeekFollowing rumors that an announcement was soon to come, Yahoo! said Thursday that hackers managed to access data from at least 500 million user accounts in a cyber-attack dating back to 2014. The company said hackers breached its network in […]
Application security, Mobile security
September 23, 2016
Via: CSO OnlineU.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Robert Silvers says his purpose in speaking at the Security of Things Forum in Cambridge on Thursday wasn’t to scare anyone, but then he went ahead and called on everyone in the room to “accelerate […]
April 7, 2016
Via: The HillThe risk that nation-state hackers will launch a destructive cyber-attack on the U.S. grid is low, according to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment leaked by the research project Public Intelligence. “The majority of malicious activity occurring against the […]
October 4, 2015
Via: application-security#microsoft has acknowledged that users of its Office for Mac 2016 application suite are encountering frequent crashes and implied that it’s working on a #fix, but offered no timeline for delivering an update. In an emailed #statement, a Microsoft spokeswoman […]
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