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Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates
On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will...
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What Location Tracking Looks Like
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a...
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FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records
An order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withhold information from the court whenever it thinks...
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Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to installer
This morning on 9/13/2011 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), the uTorrent.com and BitTorrent.com Web servers were compromised. Our standard Windows software download was replaced with a type of fake antivirus “scareware” program. (UPDATE: See below for removal instructions.) Just…
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Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea
An increasing number of people are asking us about the recent paper coming out of Inria in...
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Errata: Steve Gibson
a summary of Steven Gibson events and quotes demonstrating charlatan status