March 6, 2014 , 1:49 pm
Categories: Malware, Microsoft
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Microsoft have shared new insight into how malware campaigns operate over the Tor anonymity network, as well as other darknets.
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March 10, 2014 , 10:31 am
Microsoft Disclosed User Content in 10% of U.S. Law Enforcement Requests
Categories: Government, Microsoft, Privacy
Microsoft supplied user content in response to 10.8 percent of the law enforcement requests it received from United States agencies in the second half of 2013. The company got more than 5,600 requests from U.S. agencies in the last six months of the year, and in the vast majority of those–68 percent–it only supplied subscriber[...]
March 7, 2014 , 1:08 pm
Privacy Advocates Want To Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp
Categories: Privacy
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission seeking to halt Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.
March 7, 2014 , 8:58 am
New Attacks on HTTPS Traffic Reveal Plenty About Your Web Surfing
Categories: Cryptography, Privacy
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed new attacks that analyze HTTPS traffic and can accurately determine what pages you’ve visited during an encrypted session.
March 6, 2014 , 4:36 pm
Dexter, Project Hook POS Malware Campaigns Persist
Categories: Data Breaches, Hacks
Research this week makes it’s clear that many attackers are still using point of sale malware, namely Dexter and Project Hook, in active attacks.
