Thursday, August 22, 2013

Wikileaker Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years

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08.22.2013

Wikileaker Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years

08.21.2013 9:45 AM

A military court judge has sentenced U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison on Wednesday on charges related to his leaking a large store of classified documents to Wikileaks, according to a number of published and broadcast reports.

Bitcoin wallet service to issue refunds after users' funds stolen

08.20.2013 9:08 PM

A widely used Bitcoin wallet service plans to issue refunds to people who saw their bitcoins stolen as a result of a weakness in its application.

 

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Zero day forever--move away from Windows XP, now

08.16.2013 12:17 PM

In a new post, Microsoft reminds users--again--that Windows XP support ends in April. But this time, Microsoft attempts to demonstrate the security risks of XP.

Clockwise 6: Playlists to shower by

08.15.2013 4:09 PM

Two-factor authentication and bad passwords, technology to save energy, how we buy movies, and the Hyperloop. With guests Michael Brown and Serenity Caldwell

Malware hijacks mobile ad networks to siphon money

08.18.2013 11:38 AM

With more smartphones shipping than PCs, mobile ad networks open up the perfect backdoor for downloading code

Cybercriminals add new exploit for recently patched Java vulnerability to their arsenal

08.16.2013 6:25 AM

A researcher says a newly released exploit for a Java vulnerability patched in June was added to the Styx exploit toolkit.

Copyright troll honeypots spotted on The Pirate Bay

08.16.2013 9:45 AM

Some pretty strong evidence has come to light that one of the most notorious copyright troll operations in the U.S. targeted The Pirate Bay with a honeypot operation, a trap set to detect unauthorized use of copyrighted files.

British royal baby's birth drafted as phishing bait

08.17.2013 2:16 PM

It may be old news now, but hackers are still using news of the royal baby's birth to entice people into clicking on malicious links, according to researchers at Trend Micro.

Cyberattacks affected more Internet users than hardware failures in the EU last year

08.20.2013 8:16 AM

Although cyberattacks caused just 6 percent of significant outages of public electronic communications networks and services in the E.U. last year, they affected more people than hardware failure, a much more common factor in service disruptions, according to a report from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).

Court documents: NSA collected thousands of domestic communications in 2011

08.22.2013 5:26 AM

According to a declassified document from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the National Security Agency acquired thousands of digital communications from Americans as of 2011 -- a misuse of its authority, the Electronic Freedom Foundation contends.

Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager

08.22.2013 6:24 AM

Cisco Systems has released new security patches for several versions of Unified Communications Manager (UCM) to address vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, modify system data or disrupt services.

Facebook fixes timeline bug, cites language trouble in delay

08.19.2013 5:32 AM

A Facebook engineer blamed language difficulties and documentation issues for a delay in fixing a bug that let a security researcher post directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline, which is restricted if two users aren't friends.

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