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Researchers Find Critical Security Flaws in New South Wales Online Voting System

A new Internet voting system used in the latest New South Wales state election has a major vulnerability which could allow a man-in-the middle attacker to read and manipulate votes, according to researchers. Continue reading

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More Than One Billion Records Containing Personally Identifiable Information Leaked in 2014: Report

The number of records with personally identifiable information leaked reached over a billion in 2014 after a drastic increase in reported vulnerabilities in Q4, according to the latest threat report by IBM X-Force. Continue reading

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Average Web Page Size Up 15 Percent in 2014: Report

As 2014 draws to a close, the latest data from the HTTP Archive shows that the average web page grew 15 percent to almost 2Mb in the past year. That rate of increase is down from 30 percent in 2012 and 32 percent last year. Continue reading

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Web Hosts and Customers Prepare for Looming PCI DSS 3.0 Deadline

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard version 3.0, the latest major update to the standard for handling payment card information, formally goes into effect starting Jan. 1, 2015. Continue reading

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Researchers Say Decentralized BitTorrent Client Prevents Shutdown A La Pirate Bay

A group of researchers from Delft University of Technology have launched the latest version of Tribler, a BitTorrent client that doesn’t rely on central servers and offers anonymous downloading. Continue reading

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