Mounties arrest man who used Heartbleed bug to steal Canadians’ tax data
A 19 year old attacked Canada’s tax agency, and stole sensitive data from 900 accounts. The country’s police service has now made an arrest. Read more »
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A 19 year old attacked Canada’s tax agency, and stole sensitive data from 900 accounts. The country’s police service has now made an arrest. Read more »
TWC has launched the first large-scale implementation of Hotspot 2.0, which will make public Wi-Fi networks behave like cellular networks. You log into the network once and you’ll be instantly connected… Read more »
Still blindly surfing in the wake of HeartBleed? Our Chrome extension of the week will give you a little more peace of mind, telling you which sites are still at risk… Read more »
Many websites’ fate is tied to where to they appear in Google rankings. That’s why it’s significant that Google may one day give a boost to those that use encryption. Read more »
A new development in the Heartbleed bug story: Bloomberg reports that America’s spy service knew about it and has been using it for two years. Read more »
Does the Heartbleed hubbub mean we should re-consider use of open-source software? Probably not, but it’s worth discussing. Read more »
Don’t let down your guard. While many websites have been updated against Heartbleed, a lot of the hardware running the internet is also infected. Read more »
As the threat from the Heartbleed flaw sinks in, before you start logging on to all of your online services and update your account information, it is a good idea to… Read more »
Researchers have discovered a serious flaw known as Heartbleed that affects the security software that runs on about two-thirds of the servers on the internet and could expose user data, including… Read more »
Twitter(s twtr) has reportedly put on hold a plan to encrypt its users’ direct messages. The plan was mentioned in a New York Times piece in October last year, in the… Read more »