Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on Tuesday will offer the companion to a Senate bill blocking a Justice Department request to expand federal hacking powers. At issue is a proposed amendment to little-known criminal procedure rules that will take effect in December…
Top ad blocking app Peace is pulled from the App Store
The most popular paid app in the Apple App Store is no longer available for purchase. Marco Arment, the man behind ad-blocker Peace, has decided to stop offering the app for iOS 9. Those who already bought it will be able to continue using it, but Arment says that there…
After blocking Gmail, now China seems to be hacking Microsoft Outlook
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Powered by Max Banner Ads Chinese users of Microsoft Corp’s MSFT 0.32% Outlook email service were subject to a hacking attack at the weekend, just weeks after Google Inc’s GOOG -0.23% For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com…
Iran blocking SSL-secured Internet, claims Tor Project
The Iranian government has severed some citizens’ connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google’s Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts. Starting yesterday, people who said they live in Iran began describing problems reaching websites secured with SSL (secure socket layer), which is used to…
BT Must Start Blocking Newzbin 2 Within Two Weeks (October 26, 2011)
A UK High Court judge has given British Internet service provider (ISP) BT two weeks to implement a plan to block Newzbin2, a membership-only site known for making pirated content available……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft Joins Mozilla and Google in Blocking DigiNotar Certificates (September 6, 7 & 8, 2011)
Microsoft released an out-of-cycle update for Windows to block all digital certificates issued by DigiNotar……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime
Apple criticised for not blocking stolen SSL certificates
Apple have been criticised for “foot dragging” over the DigiNotar certificate fiasco and have been urged to quickly update Mac OS X to protect users. Security and forensics analyst Paul Henry, from Arizone-based Lumension, said: “We’re looking at some very serious issues about trust on the web and it doesn’t…
Chrome Improves Anti-Malware Blocking Score by 340%
Google’s Chrome blocked four times more malicious sites and malware than a year ago, but Firefox 4 was much less effective at warning users of danger than Mozilla’s browser last year, according to a report released Monday. Both were thrashed by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), however, which easily retained…