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C-13: Who’s the bully?

Bill C-13 is being promoted by the Conservatives as addressing cyber-bulling, but it is much more about the Harper government bullying Canadians into giving up ...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave Player 12.0.7.148 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

Clean Out Your Computer Day with System Mechanic

February 10, 2014 is clean out your computer day and we're giving away a free copy of System Mechanic to help.

Hackers target TD Canada Trust Customers

TD Canada Trust customers beware: Criminals are targeting you with a phishing scam. The email claims to be from email@easywebcpo.td.com; an address that TD customers may ...

Hacked Within Minutes: Sochi Visitors Face Internet Minefield

According to NBC, the U.S. State Department has told Americans travelling to Sochi that they should have “no expectation of privacy,” even in their hotel ...

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Virtual machine (VM) security still a work in progress

Trying to protect your expanding virtual machine (VM) empire will require a security product that can enforce policies, prevent VMs from being terminated or infected, ...

Twitter plugs protected accounts bug to flush out stalkers

Creepy types can no longer see selectively shared tweets via SMS: Twitter has killed a bug that had allowed some stalkers on the micro-blogging site ...

Court rejects U.S. gov’t bid to hold phone records beyond five years

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled against a U.S. government request that it be allowed to hold telephone metadata beyond the current five-year ...

Euro cops on free Wi-Fi not-so-hotspots: For pity’s sake, don’t use them for email

… or banking. Or Facebook. What were you THINKING?: Using free Wi-Fi hotspots poses a data risk to users, the boss of European police agency ...

Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200 Million Consumer Records

In October 2013, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on ...

Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse

Report in Japan says ’150,000 hits per second’: A Japanese newspaper is reporting that during the spectacular collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, the ...

Mt. Gox CEO’s blog goes blank after alleged hack

Hackers attacked the personal blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday and posted what they claim is a ledger showing a balance of ...

A clear-eyed guide to Mac OS X’s actual security risks

Apple has improved its security in recent years, but is it enough?

After Recent Ruling, Americas Commercial Drone Pilots Come Out of the Shadows

Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting ...

Security Manager’s Journal: Thousands of dollars in phone calls? Management hates that.

Problem arose after a consultant made a configuration change, opening up control ports to the Internet, with no authentication required.

Microsoft pitching targeted political ads on Xbox Live

Microsoft is currently wooing politicians, hoping to take a piece of the midterm election advertising pie. Therefore, targeted political ads may be coming soon to ...

Perspective: Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by retiring XP

Microsoft’s plans to ship the final public patches for Windows XP on April 8 could undo its hard-won reputation for security and hurt itself as ...

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