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By Maurits Martijn, from De Correspondent Translated from Dutch by Jona Meijers Illustrations by Kristina Collantes In his backpack, Wouter Slotboom, 34, carries around a small black device, slightly…

If you haven't activated two-factor authentication on Dropbox yet, you may want to do so now, just in case you end up finding your credentials posted on the internet. A document posted on pastebin earlier contains 400 Dropbox usernames and passwords, which the poster claims are just a tiny fraction of a massive hack that compromises up to 7 million accounts. The poster has been asking for Bitcoin donations in exchange for more accounts, and by the looks of it, he got enough money, at least, to post another batch of log-in credentials within the same day. At the moment, it's still unclear how the hacker(s) got a hold of the usernames and passwords, but the cloud service told Engadget that Dropbox itself has not been hacked. Update: Dropbox again stated that it has not been hacked, this time in a blog post, and says security measures are in place to detect accounts compromised with log-in info stolen from other sites.

Edward Snowden has hit out at Dropbox and other services he says are “hostile to privacy,” urging web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.

Silicon Valley's smartphone snitching has come to an end. Apple and Google have promised that the latest versions of their mobile operating systems make it impossible for them to unlock encrypted phones, even when compelled to do so by the government. But if the Department of Justice can't demand that its corporate friends unlock your phone, it may have another option: Politely asking that you unlock it yourself, and letting you rot in a cell until you do.

The move raises yet another barrier to police who want to gain access to the troves of personal data typically kept on smartphones.

It's been less than a day since the company published its new, excellent privacy policy — but Gigaom has noticed that the latest Apple transparency report, covering Jan 1-Jun 30…

A new piece of ransomware called TorrentLocker has been analyzed by researchers, and uses visual components borrowed from CryptoLocker and CryptoWall.

GPU-powered pen test yields more bad news about defences and passwords

IT firms struggle to fix busted Web padlock — Black Hat’s big idea: U.S. should buy zero days — Beijing says it won’t buy Apple products

You could be forgiven for not having heard of John Henry Skillern. The 41 year old is facing charges of possession and promotion of child pornography after Google detected images of child abuse on …

Boffins have created a free service to help anyone has fallen foul of the notorious CryptoLocker ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands a ransom be paid for the decryption key.

For people worried about identity theft and privacy, the discovery by Hold Security of a giant database of stolen data is highly personal. But there are steps everyone can take to minimize the hackers’ impact.

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A credit card skimmer is a malicious device criminals attach to a payment terminal---most commonly on ATMs and gas pumps.

Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards. Although we know they often carry malware infections, we depend on antivirus scans and the occasional reformatting to keep our thumbdrives from becoming the carrier for the next digital epidemic. But the security problems with USB devices run deeper than you think: Their risk isn’t \[…\]

BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent , unveiled its serverless chat client today. BitTorrent Bleep allows users to communicate via text or voice, fully encrypted and without the need for central servers.

Open source software group Open Whisper Systems today released a new encrypted phone app called Signal, which is designed to allow its users to make...

If nothing bad that we know about has happened as a result of the N.S.A.’s “incidental collection” of data of ordinary Americans, what’s the problem?

카지노사이트 정보에 대한 모든것카지노사이트 정보를 알려드리겠습니다. 현대 사회에서 빠르게 성장하고 있는 온라인 도박 산업의 핵심입니다. 이 기사에서는 카지노사이트에 대한 모든 정보를 다루며, 온라인 도박의 변화와 흥미로운 측면을 탐구하고자 합니다.

Security and convenience are perpetually at war. There will always be errors, compromises, and oversights that put our privacy at risk. Old ones will get fixed but new ones will get discovered. So wha

Leave your ring of cut-brass secrets unattended on your desk at work, at a bar table while you buy another round, or in a hotel room, and any stranger---or friend---can upload your keys to their online collection.