2013

General Security
Email Security & Usage Around the World (Infographic)

In the following part of the article we will study some stats and facts about the email security and the usage across the globe. It has been seen that around 25% of the people send email at late night just to prove their commitment. There are 57% of the users whose half of the working day is spent on email. Email is also relied as a search tool by around 86% of the people.

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Web Security
Safety and Security of WordPress Blog (Infographic)

WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) in use and around 17% of the websites that are present on the internet these days are powered by this CMS. With the growing use of WordPress its security and safety has also become one of the major issues to deal with. In the year 2011 more than 144,000 word press sites were hacked and this number reached to 170,000 in the year 2012.

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Hack
If you fear about US Spying STOP using Google and Facebook NOW, says Germany

If you are worried about the US spying on you, you need to stop using Google and Facebook, Germany’s top security official has warned.

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General Security
Google: Lots of legit websites can infect your computer

Google: Lots of legit websites can infect your computer

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General Security
Game Company Ubisoft Hacked, Passwords Compromised; Change your Password NOW

Game Company Ubisoft Hacked, Passwords Compromised; Change your Password NOW

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General Security
List of Organizations Hacked under “NSA PRISM”; it never ends

US NSA reported to Hack on China and European countries, in one of the biggest scandals for the Obama administration, the program is called PRISM and the list of hacked organizations never ends:

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Conference
SummerCon 2013 Review by @Hans_Bosch

SummerCon celebrated its third year in the New York metropolitan area with a baptismal rain fall that consumed the entire day. Luckily for us, a delicious spread of NY style deli meats, vegetables, and various types of salads where plentifully provided by IOActive. Thank you IO! We managed to have plenty of food until late in the day.

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Malware
Google adds (some) malware and phishing info to Transparency Report

Google adds (some) malware and phishing info to Transparency Report

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Vulnerability
Microsoft's Big Bucks For Bugs Ups The Ante

A  Posting from Dark  Reading in there Application Security section: When Microsoft senior security strategist Katie Moussouris was asked two years ago whether Microsoft would ever consider a bug bounty program of its own, she left the door open ever so slightly on whether the software giant would abandon its longtime philosophy of not paying […]

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Malware
'BinaryPig' Uses Hadoop To Sniff Out Patterns In Malware

A  Posting from Dark  Reading in there Threat Intelligence section: As the menagerie of malware collected by security firms continues to multiply, researchers are looking for new ways to analyze the massive data sets to find interesting information in their malware zoos.  At the Black Hat Security Briefings in late July, one trio of researchers […]

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