Category Archives: Security News

Google has received over 41,000 requests to ‘forget’ personal information

June 5, 2014   Security News

Google 'forget' personal information

Google has already received around 41,000 requests to delete links to personal information from its search results in the three weeks since a key ruling by the European Court of Justice about the so-called right to be forgotten.

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Google plans end-to-end encryption tool for additional email privacy

June 4, 2014   Security News
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In an apparent response to ongoing concerns about electronic communications being collected and read by government agencies, Google released its estimates of how much email is being sent, unencrypted—as well as a tool to do something about it.
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ISPs should quarantine infected computers

June 4, 2014   Security News
The recent effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet includes plans for Internet service providers to notify victims, but some security researchers think ISPs should play an even bigger role in the future by actively quarantining infected computers identified on their networks.
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Critical flaw in GnuTLS encryption opens Linux PCs to server-based attacks

June 4, 2014   Security News
A serious vulnerability that could be exploited to crash TLS clients and potentially execute malicious code on underlying systems was patched in the popular GnuTLS cryptographic library.
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Phishing campaign alert: Fake Heartbleed removal tool

June 3, 2014   Security News
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Trend Micro is warning of a phishing campaign touting a “Heartbleed removal” tool, a nonsensical product that is actually malicious software.
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