October 17, 2016

$5 million dollars paid as Facebook’s bug bounty program turns 5

Since its birth, Facebook's pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered 900 bugs and paid out over $5,000,000.

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October 14, 2016

Doh! Government inadvertently reveals hacker’s private info

When you're prosecuting a hacker for exposing private information to the world, you really shouldn't do the same thing yourself!

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October 06, 2016

BuzzFeed latest high-profile victim of OurMine hackers

It appears that the hacking group didn't appreciate being described as 'brainchild of a soccer-obsessed high school student'

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October 03, 2016

Should we soon expect to be sending passwords through our bodies, not the air?

What if you could securely send password data through your body, not the air?

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September 29, 2016

Major bank attacks thwarted by SWIFT thinking

Remember last March's online $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist? Turns out there have been several more attacks since then.

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September 26, 2016

Will quantum teleportation defeat quantum decryption?

Maybe the quantum will giveth what the quantum taketh away… at least when it comes to secure transmissions.

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September 21, 2016

New guidelines: cybersecurity, privacy and your self-driving car

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has just issued its eagerly-awaited "guidance" for self-driving and "highly automated" vehicles.

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September 19, 2016

Password-protect your Wi-Fi hotspots and ask for user details too, rules ECJ

The ECJ has ruled that Wi-Fi hotspot operators aren’t liable for copyright infringements, but they may have to demand users' identities and password-protect their networks.

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September 15, 2016

Will Congress ever vote on the “The Stop Mass Hacking Act”?

The clock is ticking, Congress is busy getting reelected and there are only 75 days left

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