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Internet Systems Consortium site hacked
This post was originally published on January 7, 2015. This week the Internet Systems Consortium site was hacked. Visitors to the site, which develops the BIND DNS, OpenReg, ISC AFTR and ISC DHCP t...
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Top 10 security breaches of 2014
That's right folks, it's time. Time for a roundup of the year's worst IT security breaches and how they've impacted the tech market at large. And away we go, with: 1) University of Maryland Let's sta...
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Encrypted chat apps: Give 'em nothing to talk about
This post was originally published on December 22, 2014. We've since done a follow-up post about even more encrypted chat apps for you to keep your conversations private! In the wake of NSA snooping r...
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Sick and tired: Ebola malware making the rounds
What are your chances of contracting Ebola, the awful haemorrhagic fever spreading through West Africa? Despite recent media coverage the answer is extremely low since the virus isn't airborne. As a r...
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ExpressVPN supports National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014
Did you know? October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. During October, Stay Safe Online is encouraging everybody to raise awareness about safety and security while browsing the internet. Ho...
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Apple releases iOS 8, locks out law enforcement and reaffirms commitment to user privacy
Apple last week released its long-awaited iPhone 6, as well as the bigger iPhone 6 plus, much to the delight of its army of loyal fans. While the launch garnered the expected column inches in print me...
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Why we should all care about metadata surveillance
This post was originally published on April 25, 2014. Hopefully, Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance of phone call metadata are still fresh in your minds. “But it’s just metadat...
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How to fix Apple's SSL #gotofail security flaw, and how public Wi-Fi was a security threat long before the flaw existed
“Creative Commons Grand Cafe Van Gogh” by Thomas Leuthard, used under CC BY / Danger sign overlaid over photo. Quick summary What happened: Apple just released an update for iOS that fixes a majo...
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Our reaction to Prism and NSA spying
This past week we've seen a flurry of media coverage related to privacy in electronic communications. It started with reports that Verizon, a US telecom provider, furnishes the National Security Agenc...
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ExpressVPN protects you from password sniffing programs
As some of you may recall, back around late-2010, a new Firefox extension was released that allowed an individual to hijack numerous accounts of users connected to public WiFi access points -- everyth...
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