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Daily Archives: August 13, 2014
Gmail introduces filters for non-Latin characters, weeding out more phishing emails
Using non-Latin characters that look very similar to their ASCII counterparts helps scammers, spammers and phishing crooks send emails from legitimate-looking addresses. Now Google’s putting a stop to that with a set of new spam filters. 
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, August 2014: RCE + ASLR bypass + EoP == patch early, patch all!
Patch Tuesday is here again. Paul Ducklin explains how this month’s vulnerabilities can work together for harm, and why *all* the updates matter, not just the ones that ended up with a “critical” or “severe” tag…
DEA paid out $854,460 for free Amtrak passenger data
Since 1995, a former Amtrak employee has been selling passenger data to the US Drug Enforcement Administration – information that cost the DEA $854,460, but which it could have gotten for free.