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What private browsing do and dont

Many people look for more privacy when they browse the web by using their browsers in privacy-protecting modes, called “Private Browsing” in Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Apple Safari; “Incognito” in…
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Defender now bins CCleaner

Microsoft’s Windows Defender antivirus software is—perhaps ironically—flagging CCleaner, a junk file remover, as a “Potentially Unwanted Application." The alerts occur when Windows Defender scans certain installers for the free and…

Deceptikons for Hire !

Russian cyber-security firm Kaspersky said today in a webinar that it discovered a new hacker-for-hire mercenary group that appears to have been active for almost a decade. The group, which…

Warning on DDoS Attack vectors

The FBI sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The alert…