Oracle’s Java, infamous in the past for bundling the Ask Toolbar as part of its install and update processes, is ditching Ask in favour of Yahoo’s search engine.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Suspected mastermind behind mass ATM heist spree finally extradited to US
18 months after his arrest, the Turkish national accused of masterminding a worldwide string of ATM heists netting as much as $55 million has been sent to the US to face trial.
SSCC 204 – You want an extension to your extension for Windows XP? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, the award-winning Chet Chat. Enjoy!
DEA agent who lined his pockets with Silk Road bitcoins pleads guilty
Carl Force confessed to routing bitcoins into his own accounts while investigating the black market site.
CryptoWall ransomware cost US victims at least $18 million, FBI says
The CryptoWall variant of crypto-ransomware cost US businesses and consumers at least $18 million between April 2014 and June 2015. The total damages could be much higher.
Blackshades RAT co-author sentenced to 57 months in prison
Alex Yucel, co-creator of the Blackshades Remote Access Trojan (RAT), has been sentenced for selling and distributing the malware since 2010.
Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent
“Come at me Aussie police,” the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.
Now you can avoid email sender’s remorse with Gmail’s ‘Undo Send’ feature
Wrong recipients and forgotten attachments could soon become a thing of the past with Gmail’s new ‘Undo Send’ feature.
NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win…
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google’s Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on… …that listened to your microphone.
Uber wants even more customer data – EPIC asks FTC to slam on the brakes
Uber wants location data when the app’s running in the background (even when it’s off on iOS), location data from IP address, and users’ contact lists. 