Juha Nurmi, founder of the Ahmia search project, first noticed a fake version of his own site before discovering that there are multiple clones of hundreds of other Dark Web sites. The sites could be used for surveillance or for conducting man-in-the-middle attacks and include a clone of the popular DuckDuckGo search engine.
Tag Archives: Privacy
BBC sets up list of news article links ‘forgotten’ by Google
Search engines are now complying with right to be forgotten requests, but the new list makes the de-indexed articles easy to find through the BBC itself.
Spearphishing gets personal as woman scammed out of £50k house deposit
Spearphishing isn’t just a threat for businesses. As this case shows, thieves are willing to spend considerable effort prying into the lives and email of ordinary people in the hope of scoring big cash.
One man emailed 97,931 people to tell them their passwords had been stolen
‘Atechdad’ searched Pastebin for stolen login credentials, and after three days of searching he emailed victims to tell them the bad news.
Private eye jailed for hacking email of Scientology critics and others
Eric Saldarriaga pled guilty to prying open the accounts of over 50 people, including prominent Scientology critics Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega.
Encrypt like everyone’s watching! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
There’s a Sophos T-shirt that warns you, “Dance like nobody’s watching. Encrypt like everyone is.” We aren’t kidding, folks, and this week’s 60 Second Security tells you why!
Court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster
The social network has been ordered by a Dutch court to either identify the uploader of a sex video or open its servers up to an independent investigator.
Serious Security: Understanding the ‘P’ in ‘VPN’
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. But that doesn’t necessarily mean “private” as in privacy. Paul Ducklin helps you understand the various levels of ‘P’ in ‘VPN.’
Apple tweaks iOS 9 to stop advertisers getting our app data
Developers and advertisers have been eyeballing the apps we download to target-pitch their own wares. Apple are shuttering the peepshow.
Privacy outcry over proposal to reveal website owners’ identities
An ICANN proposal would strip the rights of commercial site owners to use proxy services to shield their identities: a move the EFF says comes from copyright-hungry entertainment companies.