- BotConf2013: The ‘first botnet fighting conference’ took place in Nantes, France. And the slides are available.
- COPS: Talks & slides of the ‘Congress on Privacy & Surveillance‘ held at the EPFL in September are online.
- IETF 88: A video of the technical plenary focused on the topic of “Internet Hardening” can be viewed here.
- Pony Botnet: Trustwave found a Pony Botnet Controller server holding over two million passwords and account credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn & Co. – and did some analysis on password complexity and length.
- ZeroAccess Botnet: Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) together with cybercrime units from Germany, Latvia, Switzerland and the Netherlands disrupted the ZeroAccess Botnet. Krebs-on-Security published some insights why it appears to be operating normally.
- NSA mass surveillance: According to the Washington Post, the NSA gathers cellphone location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally – around 5 billion records a day.
- The EFF asked companies like Amazon, Facebbook, Dropbox & Co. what they are doing to bring encryption best practices to their services.
- Big Data & Security: Cisco published a series of blog posts about Big Data in Security, Part I – Part V
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