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Orphaned Bots Facing Internet Blackout
DNSChanger botnet takedown poses unique challenges and risks that other botnet overthrows do not
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Gatekeeper and the Choice of Security for Mac Users
Context is a funny thing. In most segments of society, Apple is seen as an exemplary company, with an unrivaled record of innovation, much-admired ad campaigns and a stock price that is the envy of every company not named Google. But in the security community, Apple is regarded with some combination of disbelief, confusion and the disdain that once was reserved for Microsoft.
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Consumer group files FTC complaint against Google
From Google’s privacy policy change to Google overriding browser default settings, the FTC is getting an earful from privacy groups and lawmakers.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
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Tech firms agree to privacy protections for mobile apps
In an effort led by California’s attorney general, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others have agreed to require developers to inform users about data usage policies before they download apps.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
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NIST, Maryland Plan New Cybersecurity Center
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced plans Tuesday to break ground on a new center that will be committed to cybersecurity research. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will be built near NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus in hopes of strengthening the country’s cybersecurity products and services.
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Groupon Piggyback Site Offers $500 Voucher, Charges Users for Allegedly ‘Free’ Trial Offers
A domain registered two days ago as groupon500.com, which claims to offer a $500 voucher toward Groupon or its primary competitor, LivingSocial, is actually registering users for ‘free’ trial offers that aren’t free at all. The best part, however, is that everything about this scam is perfectly legal according to Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier.
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Disclosure Clouded By Obscurity
Shockingly the responsible disclosure debate rears its head once again, and amazingly enough some vendors still don’t get it. Guess we’ll never learn
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Five Schemes For Redeeming Trust In SSL
Creativity loves constraint and for security thinkers trying to shore up Web authentication today, that constraint is SSL/TLS
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Waves of Attacks Target Adobe Reader Bug From 2010
Thanks to the wonderful tendency of users not to update their applications, old vulnerabilities never die, they just get overtaken by newer and shinier ones. The attackers know this well, and every once in a while they serve up a nice reminder to the rest of us. The most recent one of these is a string of attacks against an Adobe Reader vulnerability from 2010.