- Home Depot overtakes Target: While Target’s breach in December ‘only’ exposed 40 million customer debit and credit card accounts, Home Depot confirms that the recent breach impacted 56 million customers. A malware infected its point-of-sale-network between April and September.
- What comes after CVE-2014-9999? The international database for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures faces its ‘Y2K’ moment. Read more about the syntax change here.
- pEp: pretty Easy privacy is a new crowdfunding project based in Switzerland with the aim to simplify encryption for existing communication tools.
- IptabLes / IptabLex: Akamai has published a threat advisory (PDF) to warn of attacks where cybercriminals are infecting Linux servers with malware capable of launching powerful DDoS attacks.
- Heartbleed: Traffic data collected by researchers on several large networks shows no exploit attempts in the months leading up to the public disclosure of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability.
- US government ordered Yahoo to hand over user data or pay USD 250.000 fine per day!
- Do you like Online Security Dashboards? techiehow.com compiled a list.
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