Silent Circle announced today the release of a new major system update for Silent OS, the operating system powering the company’s privacy-focused Blackphone 2 smartphones.
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Top Websites Fail to Prevent Email Spoofing
More than half of Alexa top 500 domains allow email spoofing because their owners have failed to properly configure email servers, according to web security firm Detectify.
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Cybercriminals Use New Tricks in Phishing Attacks
Researchers have observed phishing attacks where cybercriminals used some new tricks to avoid raising suspicion and make their operations more efficient.
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GoToMyPC Resets All User Passwords After Attack
Over the weekend, Citrix informed users of its remote access software GoToMyPC that their passwords have been reset due to what the company calls a “very sophisticated password attack.”
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Mozilla Debuts Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly
We live in a connected world where we have multiple online accounts that are often segregated between our personal and work lives. Being able to use all of them at the same time while still keeping them separated isn’t always possible, yet Mozilla is attempting to change that with a brand new feature in the Nightly release of Firefox 50.
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Hack Leads to Plummeting Value of Ethereum Digital Currency
The value of Ethereum, a cryptocurrency somewhat similar to bitcoin, has plummeted following a hack on The DAO's Ethereum holdings. The DAO is a decentralized and virtual organization designed to provide funds for new projects. Those funds are held and dispersed as Ether. The DAO itself is the single largest holder of Ether; in excess of 9.2 million prior to the hack.
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Apple Wants All iOS Apps to Use HTTPS by 2017
Apple announced this week at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that by the end of the year it wants all iOS applications in the official App Store to use secure HTTPS connections to communicate with their servers.
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Google Increases Android Bug Bounty Payouts
After paying out more than half a million dollars, Google has decided to increase the rewards offered to researchers who report vulnerabilities through the company’s Android bug bounty program.
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Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited by APT Group
Adobe has patched the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability exploited by a relatively new advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed “ScarCruft” in attacks aimed at high-profile targets.
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Attackers Used Leaked Passwords to Hack GitHub Accounts
GitHub informed users on Thursday that it has reset the passwords of an unspecified number of accounts after they had been compromised by attackers who leveraged credentials leaked from other online services.
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