- Mobile Security: FireEye researchers have discovered a new software which takes Android malware to a new level by combining multiple malicious activities into one app.
- According to a new blog post from Glenn Greenwald, the GCHQ has developed tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites or censor video content.
- After all, new research shows that ‘123456’ is a great password: Websites that would not present a threat if hacked should get throwaway credentials.
- World Cup & Threat Intelligence: According to the Imperva Data Security Blog, Hackers like soccer so much, that they put their weapons down during the World Cup Finals. But during the rest of the matches, attacks actually increased.
- ‘Bill Gates’ is the name of a versatile DDoS trojan for Linux.
- Countersurveillance: Germany’s government is seriously considering manual typewriters as a means to avoid spying – not electronic models of course.
- Cloud Security: Everybody is talking about it, but how secure is cloud computing really? SWITCH’s Rüdiger Rissmann wrote an interesting article about the technical and non-technical aspects of Cloud security.
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