by Joseph Forbes | Apr 4, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the who’s-to-blame dept. We have a sense that surveillance is bad, but we often have a hard time saying exactly why. In an interesting and readable new article in the Harvard Law Review, law professor Neil Richards argues that surveillance is bad for two...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 4, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Web Hosting
For at least nine months, the Darkleech malware is believed to have injected invisible iFrames that link to malicious web pages into thousands of web sites. The malware uses an Apache web server module to add the iFrames, although no credible attack vector has been...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY
Tens of thousands of websites, some operated by The Los Angeles Times, Seagate, and other reputable companies, have recently come under the spell of “Darkleech,” a mysterious exploitation toolkit that exposes visitors to potent malware attacks. The ongoing...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS
from the one-more-and-it’s-old-enough-to-drink dept. Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar, and the ability to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 3, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the if-you-can’t-beat-’em dept. Microsoft on Wednesday released SkyDrive 3.0 for iOS out of the blue. Last time the app was in the news, Apple was stopping Microsoft from pushing out an update in the App Store because the company doesn’t pay a...
