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According to DoubleClick Advertiser Blog, Google acquired Spider.io in order to invest in a cleaner and more accountable web. Spider.io is a company from London that spent over 3 years building a world-class ad fraud fighting operation. Spider.io’s functionality is designed specifically to detect attacks originating from

In February 18, 2014, the online game Wurm Online’s servers were attacked by a massive DDOS based attack. The DDoS attack made the gaming application offline for more than a day. For this reason, the company posted an announce, saying that they will offer a 10 000

According to it’s official website, SlickLogin has been acquired by Google. Launched into closed beta in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield, SlickLogin lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it. How exactly does it work?

According to Kickstarter’s blog post, on Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted them that hackers gained unauthorized access to some of it’s customers data. Kickstarter says that they took all the necessary security measures and they immediately closed the security breach. No credit card

The hacker Dr.FarFar claimed that he changed the Timeline Cover Photo of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account. Hacker Dr.FarFar explained that he used the “Report abuse” option on Zuckerberg’s Cover image, and choosed, “I don’t like this photo of me” and then “I used Fiddler2 Debugger Program to

According to Securatary, this vulnerability allows for a cross store (unauthenticated, as we have not authenticated to our target store) privilege escalation attack, that will create a user on any *.gostorego.com store. There are over 200 000 active Magento Go stores. So this attack allows access to

CloudFlare DDOS Attack, the largest Distributed Denial of Service Attack in the world! NTP based 400 Gbs DDOS Attack Security company CloudFlare said Monday that a customer running on its platform was hit with a massive DDOS attack and that affected service in all the Europe, even

Today, February 11th, 2014 is The Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance. Almost 6,000 companies on the web, including Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, and organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, have joined forces to demonstrate against U.S. Security Agency NSA. Thus, February 11 became “The day

Google has been shamed and forced by the authorities in France to publish on the first page of its search engine a message that informs the public about the fine of 150,000 euros received in this country for violation of privacy of users. French Data Protection Authority,

Avast, one of the biggest PC and Mobile security software companies announced a major investment from CVC Capital Partners. This investment of an unspecified amount values Avast at $1 billion. According to Opswat‘s Antivirus market Share Report for January 2014, Avast follows Microsoft in the top market