Evil Ops, MethBot →
The story of the malvertising delivered MethBot - (PDF), and, at $3,000,000.00 per day (est.) it's truly making America pay...
Anon, Maiden Fair... →
via the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), comes this important privacy-and-web-browsing-related press release wordsmithed by John Sullivan of Princeton, with the specific report by Arvind Narayanan, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University, and Sharad Goel, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and others.
"Given a history with 30 links originating from Twitter, we can deduce the corresponding Twitter profile more than 50 percent of the time," the researchers note. "All the evidence we have seen piling up over the years showing the strong limits of data anonymization, including this study, really emphasizes the need to rethink our approach to privacy and data protection in the age of big data..." - via Sharad Goel, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University and an Author of the Study.
Opined
Mildly interesting opinion piece via CSM Passcode contributor Congressman Jim Langevin (D) of Rhode Island, detailing his view as to why the United States Federal Government needs 'hackers' - whom or whatever that is...
Meanwhile, In Illicit SSL Certificate News... →
Blatant stupidity displayed by Symantec Corporation (NasdaqGS:SYMC) in the hotly-contested CA space is the topic of todays' how-not-to-do-business-in-the-technical-sector. Evidence published on Friday of last week, by Ars Technica Security Editor Dan Goodin points to illicit CA artifact issuance by the company. The discovery was made by a third party reseller monikered SSLMate. Read it and weep for the encrypted interwebs.