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Privacy advocates called out rapper/entrepreneur Jay-Z this week, filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over an app he released earlier this month that some critics feel goes overboard in amount of the information it requests from its users.
Days after Nintendo’s breach, Konami, another popular Japanese video game company, has begun warning users that 35,000 of its gamers may have had their information hacked.
Research into browser security warnings demonstrates that users heed malware or phishing alerts more than anticipated.
Hackers staged a brute force attack against Ninetendo for nearly a month, resulting in the breach of nearly 25,000 gamers’ information.
A vulnerability in Skype’s Android application could enable an attacker in possession of the phone to bypass the lockscreen.
Cisco released security updates for four network security products this week that patch a number of denial of service and command injection vulnerabilities.
Most warnings emanating from the Google Safe Browsing program are triggered by malware rather than phishing sites, a new Google Transparency Report says.
A variant of the Dirt Jumper DDoS engine called Drive has been detected. Drive includes new capabilities and has already targeted a number popular destinations on the Internet.
Security experts worry Yahoo’s plan to recycle inactive user IDs will increase the risk for identity theft.
Phishers have managed to poison Bing and Yahoo search results for Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.
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