Web giants Google and Facebook are striking back against tech support scammers who use the companies’ ad networks to snag victims.
Daily Archives: May 14, 2014
Dogecoin theft prompts temporary Doge Vault shutdown
Much hack. Very compromise.
Linux “got root” kernel bug patched after five years at large
Here’s a kernel bug in Linux that turned out to have been sitting there, Heartbleed style, awaiting discovery and exploitation for several years. Paul Ducklin digs in…
People have the right to be e-forgotten, EU court rules against Google
Some call it a privacy win, some call it a quagmire where free speech will suffer, some say it’s irrelevant because plenty of US search companies are shielded by the First Amendment. 
NSA intercepts routers, servers to slip in backdoors for overseas surveillance
US intelligence has been covertly implanting interception tools into US networking equipment heading overseas, alleges Glenn Greenwald. 
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, May 2014 – Adobe and Microsoft both patch multiple remotable holes
Patch Tuesday updates from both Microsoft and Adobe are out. There aren’t any huge surprises this month, but both companies have critical patches for remote code execution holes…