Tag: Security

LinkedIn Announces New Security And Privacy Control Tools
LinkedIn announced that it is giving users access to three new tools to help them better control their account and data. This includes a way to see all the places you're logged int...
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Automattic Announces BruteProtect Acquisition
Automattic, the company that runs WordPress, announced that it has acuiqred BruteProtect, which makes a plugin and service for protecting sites from malicious logins, and saves ser...
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Yahoo Acquires Ad Security Company ClarityRay
Yahoo has acquired ClairtyRay, a company that has in the past dealt with getting around ad blockers, but has since been more about ad security and fraud detection. In a message...
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Microsoft Postpones IE Java-Blocking Feature
Microsoft recently posted to its Internet Explorer blog...
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Gmail Takes Security Precautions Related To New Non-Latin Character Support
Last week, Google announced that it started recognizing non-Lat...
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Yahoo Follows Google Into Better Mail Encryption
Yahoo security chief Alex Stamos announced on Thursday that by sometime next year, Yahoo Mail will be encrypted end-to-end, and will be compatible with end-to-end encryption in Gma...
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What Google’s New Ranking Signal Means For You
This week, Google introduced the webmaster and SEO world to a new ranking signal. Webmasters...
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Facebook Announces Acquisition Of PrivateCore
Facebook is buying PrivateCore, a secure server technology company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Joe Sullivan, Facebook's Chief Security Officer announced the news in...
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Google Announces New Ranking Signal
Google announced that HTTPS is now a ranking signal used in its algorithm. The company has been pushing the use of HTTPS (HTTP over TLS/Transport Layer Security) for quite some tim...
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BlackBerry Acquires ‘Anti-Eavesdropping’ Company Secusmart
BlackBerry announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Secusmart, a voice and data encryption company, which makes "anti-eavesdropping" solutions for government organizat...
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Justin Bieber Lucks Out With FAA
Justin Bieber has been dealt a 'get out of jail free' pass--at least by the FAA. The Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation into what happened on the private...
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Feedly And Evernote Go Down, Hit By DDoS Attacks
No, it's not just you. Feedly is down because it's been attacked. In fact, both Feedly and Evernote were hit by denial of service attacks. Evernote says it's back up and runnin...
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Shockwave Found To Bundle Outdated, Dangerous Version Of Flash
It was recently discovered that Adobe Shockwave has been bundling a version of Flash Player that is over fifteen months old, and behind on important security updates. From the...
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Google Tightens Security On Chrome For Windows
Google announced back in November that it would start requiring all Chrome extensions to...
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