TryMedia Breach Compromises More Than 12,000 Gamer Credit Cards
ActiveStore, a service of TryMedia, a company that ;offers small game publishers their own privately labeled e-commerce site for selling games, is notifying its customers -- both publishers and...
View ArticleS**t programmers say… Only slightly NSFW. via +Paul McNamara…
S**t programmers say...Only slightly NSFW.via +Paul McNamara...Buzzblog: Just one more: 'S**t programmers say'This example scores points for its simplicity
View ArticleThe State of Our Mobile Security
Unfortunately, when it comes to mobile security it looks like things might get a lot worse before they get better.
View ArticleGovernment workers are indeed overpaid
I just came across an interesting study by the Congressional Budget Office. According to the CBO, it looks like most government employees are indeed paid too much. Oddly enough, the amount of being...
View ArticleDetecting the DNS Changer Malware
January marked half-time for the folks at the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) who are now running the DNS servers originally used in the Rove botnet. Ever since a multi-national task force dismantled...
View ArticleEnabling a New World of Insight through Big Data: the FuturICT Project
One of the best things about moving to Europe has been learning about and getting engaged with European-based research initiatives. One of these initiatives is the FuturICT project. I was introduced to...
View ArticleDDoS with just a click!
By Diego Ramirez This past Thursday, one day after the Internet black out by many major websites in protest of SOPA/PIPA, the US government and it s agencies as part of larger global crackdown,...
View ArticleHCG diet spam attack hits Facebook users, spreads rapidly
Once again, Facebook users are being hit by a barrage of spam - this time claiming to promote a diet.
View ArticleThe group law on a circle
It's fairly well known that you can define way to add points on an elliptic curve - defining a so-called "group law" for the points. It turns out that it's not too hard to do the same thing for a...
View ArticleCraying of Blue Waters: Sustained Petaflop Computation
via The Verge’s T.C. Sottek superbly scrivened piece, the story of computation at one thousand trillion operations per second, and the newly installed Cray devices committing same. Astounding. ǽ
View ArticleNitrozac and Snaggy: Silent Spring
via the genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech™
View ArticleTop Ten Java Frameworks Observed in Customer Applications
One of the great things about the Veracode platform is the insight we get from examining our anonymized customer data – not only information about the vulnerability landscape (as published in the State...
View ArticleDATA PROTECTION AND ALL THAT – WHAT DO YOU THINK?…
Well, January is nearly over andit’s time to look at all the research that’s been produced over the past year totry and draw meaningful and usable statistics...I do this very selfishly before...
View ArticleCountry With Most Online Fraud Attempts/How Much Fraud On Mobile Devices...
iovation stopped 50 million fraud attempts in 2011
View ArticleNew Survey: Two-Thirds Of Companies Interested In Switching Authentication...
SafeNet's 2011 State of the Channel Authentication survey also shows resellers are exploring new authentication options and vendors
View ArticleInfosec and too much to do
One of the most common concerns I hear about from the enterprises I speak with all the time is that of having too much to do. There’s never enough [time, money, people] to go around. So, what are they...
View ArticleNow Its B-sides and RSA
When I last wrote about B-sides a few weeks ago there was the drama of “show me the money”, as some folks questioned where money from sponsors was going. As a result the B-sides group seems to have...
View ArticleLiving in the Clouds – Master the Cloud event Toronto
Last night it snowed ... and that ordinarily wouldn't be a problem up here in the great white north, except that I don't think anyone was expecting it. What's worse, I wasn't expecting it. You can...
View ArticleGoogle responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries
Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy. In a 13-page letter (document) to several Congress members, Google explained its decision...
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