Syrian ‘Man-in-the-Middle’ Attack Hits Facebook
The Syrian Telecom Ministry earlier this week launched a man-in-the-middle attack against the HTTPS version of the Facebook site, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation. Also known as bucket-brigade attack or Janus attack, this form of online eavesdropping allows a hacker to insert himself between two communicating parties. While both parties believe they are talking to [...]
A new change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) will now keep users who jailbreak their iPhones or other mobile devices from worrying about the threat of prosecution. An additional change allows will provide further protections for security researchers. According to the Library of Congress’s Patent Office, which oversees the DMCA and conducts regular [...]
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The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have come together to provide a Firefox add-on to provide more secure Internet browsing on several major websites. The new add-on make encryption easier on major sites like Google.com, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and PayPal with HTTPS, according to The Register. The new add-on, called HTTPS Everywhere, which [...]
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From Googling to emailing to social networking, every day millions of Americans unknowingly leave behind digital breadcrumbs while surfing the web, sometimes at the risk of compromising their anonymity. But while there is technology available to stay anonymous in a time of surveillance, experts say policies and legislation won’t protect web users from privacy invasion [...]
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