Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.
Daily Archives: June 23, 2014
US House votes “overwhelmingly” to cut funding of NSA surveillance
A strong majority of the US House have voted to cut funding for surveillance on citizens or for planting backdoors that let the government slip past encryption that’s supposed to shield communications. 
‘Yo’ app hacked by college students, hires one of the hackers
A Georgia Tech student claims he and two roommates were able to get any user’s phone number, that they texted the founder (who, he said, called him back), to spam any user, and to send any text they want. Now it looks like one of them will be working for the company.
Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we wrote in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.