Digg - Security

How did the followers of Internet phenom and 4Chan.org founder "moot" put him on top of the TIME 100 poll in 2009?

The University of California – Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say this email system isn’t secure or private enough to meet their standards.

Let's say you look at porn. (You do.) This fact — not just the porn itself — belongs to you. There's no need for it to be a discoverable part of your digital life, or, god forbid, your digital legacy.

Watch the bottom part of this footage. "He-Man and Skeletor Presumed Dead" = lolowned?

Google hopes to train developers to avoid common Web application security flaws with a new application full of security holes, and a tutorial to teach people to find them.

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The US continues to insist that Canada, of all places, is in the same league as Russia and China when it comes to piracy problems. Canadians point out all the ways that copyright law is actually stronger in Canada (no time shifting!).

Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software. Hackers targeted known bugs, including flaws in Adobe's Reader, to redirect visitors to a Web site in the Ukraine associated with similar attacks in the past.

A North Carolina grocery worker is being held without bail in Houston on attempted computer hacking charges after inadvertently partnering with an undercover FBI agent in an alleged citywide ATM-reprogramming caper...

Websites operated by the US Treasury Department are redirecting visitors to websites that attempt to install malware on their PCs. The infection buries an invisible iframe in bep.treas.gov, moneyfactory.gov, and bep.gov that invokes malicious scripts from grepad.com. To cover their tracks, the miscreants tailored it so it attacks only IP...

As governments around the world amass armies of hackers to protect their countries' computer networks and possibly attack others, the idea of getting officials together to discuss shared threats such as cybercrime is challenging.

Inside the biggest online theft case in U.S. history.

"He will get into your system if you don't secure your backdoor..." from http://videosift.com/video/He-s-going-to-get-his-hands-on-your-data ...

The security firm has detected 36,208 unique strains of malware that were designed to carry out targeted attacks.

Security testers at the Guam Air Force base had to send out a clarification notice on Monday after an in-house test -- called an operational readiness exercise in Air Force parlance -- of how airmen would respond to a phishing e-mail about "Transformers 3" being filmed on site worked out a little too well.

US cybersecurity is weakened by our desire to keep government out of business.

McAfee, Symantec, and even Microsoft confirm facts that Adobe PDF exploits are continuing to climb during 2010. According to one security researcher, Adobe will take its cue from Google Chrome and add sandboxing defenses to its PDF software this year in order to beef up on Reader and Acrobat security.

It is no secret that pro-copyright lobbyists are exploiting child pornography to get file-sharing sites pulled offline. They have done so for years. Their ultimate goal is to use child porn as an excuse to impose a global Internet filter, and with a new directive being presented in the EU their strategy seems to be paying off.

You want to use Facebook, but you also want to keep your private information from being spread all over the Internet. The key is to understand how Facebook works, where your information is going, and how to navigate the service's labyrinth of privacy controls.

But here at EFF, we are also wondering if we’ve just seen the future of copyright enforcement. Although the Gizmodo seizure doesn’t appear to be rooted in copyright, having cops kicking in doors over what seems like a private dispute reminded us of recent efforts by the big content industries to get law enforcement to go after “copyright thieves.”