Latest privacy and computer security news
Cloud
Another cloud service is no longer unlimited. Amazon ended its Unlimited Everything plan. As Amazon announced today in this FAQ article [https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16591160011], new customers have to chose between a 100GB plan for $11.99 per year, or the 1 TB plan for $59.99.
Vulnerability
Researchers from the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies [https://www.checkpoint.com] discovered a new vector of attack that puts at risk hundreds of millions users of the most popular media players, including VLC [http://www.videolan.org], Kodi [https://kodi.tv] (formerly XBMC), Popcorn Time, and Stremio [https://www.
Virus
(UPDATE : New Decryption Tool [https://github.com/gentilkiwi/wanakiwi/releases] should work on any Windows from XP to 7, provided you don't restart your PC.) WannaCry - also called Wana Cryptor 2.0 - has impacted over 100 countries. This ransomware is not the first of its kind,
Virus
Avira, the German antivirus company, now offers all its services in one unified subscription: Avira Prime [https://www.avira.com/en/avira-prime] For a monthly fee - 9.95€ for 5 devices or 12.99€ for 25 devices - you can access all the premium apps from Avira. This includes
Security
Yahoo disclosed on Thursday [https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/150781911849/an-important-message-about-yahoo-user-security] what may be the biggest breach of all time : 500 million users accounts were breached in 2014 by a 'state-sponsored actor'. It may be the US government itself (through the NSA) or Russia, or China. If you
News
LogMeIn [https://secure.logmein.com/], the remote access company that terminated all its free user accounts with a 7-days grace period, just acquired Lastpass [https://lastpass.com/] for $125 million in cash. LastPass was a password manager with both free account and a premium plan at $12 per year which
News
Opera Max [http://www.opera.com/mobile/max] is a data-saving app for Android which compresses photos and videos in almost all your apps, shortening loading times, and making your data plan last up to 50% longer. But until now, Opera Max didn't compress [http://www.opera.com/
News
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson ProPublica, Aug. 17, 2015, 10:54 a.m. Newly disclosed documents [https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts-extreme-willingness-to-help] unveiling the close relationship between the National Security Agency and AT&T could breathe new life into a long-running legal dispute about the NSA's
News
So, you've just updated your PC to the brand new smoother, faster, more user-friendly Windows 10? Windows 10 has great features, like the virtual assistant, Cortana, virtual desktops, a more mouse and keyboard-friendly start menu with live tiles - Windows 10 is everything Windows 8 should have been-.
News
If you like TOR, but you think it's too sluggish to be a reliable option to counter surveillance, this innovation may speed things up. Five researchers just published a paper [http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05724v1] presenting a new network called HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network
News
Even though the FCC presented new Net Neutrality rules [http://lifehacker.com/why-the-fccs-new-net-neutrality-rules-are-good-for-the-1683769527] in February, your Internet Service Provider may still be secretly degrading your connection performance and speed. This new tool published by the nonprofit Fight For the Future [https://www.fightforthefuture.org/] can check if there are bottlenecks
VPN
There's a new vulnerability in town, and it's a critical threat to anyone who uses a VPN, email, or even a browser. What is Logjam? Dubbed Logjam [https://weakdh.org], this encryption bug allows man-in-the-middle attacks by using a flow in the Transport Layer Security protocol.