Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against...

U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. "The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Andro...

How Crisis Text Line crossed the line in the public’s mind: Lock and Code S03E05

Last month, Politico reported that Crisis Text Line, a national mental health support nonprofit whose volunteers help people through text-based chats, was sharing those chats with a for-profit company that Crisis Text Line spun-off in an attempt to boost funding for itself. That for-profit ventur...

The Rise of the Open Bug Bounty Project

Can you imagine launching a global bug bounty platform with almost 500,000 submissions and 13,000 researchers without consuming a cent from venture capitalists? If not, this success story is for you. The once skyrocketing bug bounty industry seems to be not in the best shape today. While prominen...

Squiz CMS 11654 File Path Traversal Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ======= Summary ======= Name: Squiz CMS - File Path Traversal Release Date: 30 November 2012 Reference: NGS00330 Discoverer: Robert Ray Vendor: Squiz Vendor Reference: 11846 Systems Affected: Squiz CMS V11654 Risk: High Status: Published...

100 BitTorrent Users Do Most Illegal Sharing

BitTorrent, the peer to peer file sharing network, has gained a reputation for enabling the masses to share and distribute files. But when it comes to sharing copyrighted content, just 100 users are responsible for most of the content. The findings, published by academic researchers in Spain,...

Apache Shows How to Handle a Network Compromise

The Apache Software Foundation last week was the victim of a serious network attack in which a number of its Web servers and other machines were compromised by attackers who were able to gain root privileges and jump from machine to machine. The incident was embarrassing and a serious problem for...