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Facebook Hack Compromised 30 Million People, Exposing Phone Numbers, Emails - 0 views

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    College students should be on the lookout for breaches in their social media accounts. In this digital age, college kids put most of their information on their social media accounts and should take the necessary precautions to create secure passwords.
Derek Bruff

On the Equifax Data Breach - Schneier on Security - 1 views

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    Bruce Schneier on the Equifax hack
leahrstr

Setting Up Your Tech on the Assumption You'll Be Hacked - 3 views

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    Advice: Be careful with what information is stored on online devices. Always assume that the information can be leaked so you are never too vulnerable to an attack. Keep a strong password to protect your information
stone_edwards

Bypassing encryption: 'Lawful hacking' is the next frontier of law enforcement ... - 1 views

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    Good article about lawful deciphers for "better" security
Abbey Roberts

Dying cipher suites are stinking up TLS with man-in-the-middle vulns - 0 views

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    Example of how improving technology requires new encryption that hasn't yet been cracked
Derek Bruff

Hello Future Pastebin Readers - The Message - Medium - 0 views

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    "Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public."
colleengill

UK Match.com site hit by malicious adverts - BBC News - 0 views

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    Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat. The malicious ads appeared on pages of the dating site via an ad network that pipes content to Match and many other places.
Derek Bruff

President Obama on Twitter: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We... - 0 views

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    About the same time we talked about the Ahmed Mohamed story during class yesterday, this happened.
Derek Bruff

Keurig's K-Cup coffee DRM cracked - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    I think we can count this as cryptography. Keurig (the "K-cup" coffee maker) recently rolled out a new coffee maker that only works on coffee pods with special ink markers on their foil tops, meaning that knock-off coffee pods won't work on the new Keurig systems. (More info here: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/30/5857030/keurig-digital-rights-management-coffee-pod-pirates.) This DRM-like scheme has now been hacked by competitors.
Derek Bruff

Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like "qeadzcwrsfxv1331" | Ars Technica - 1 views

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    Seriously, folks, you need better passwords.
whitnese

3Qs: Password and cloud security - 3 views

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    This article discusses the recent cloud hacks and security questions in general.
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