Security technology to help students in future careers

The same applies to TrueCrypt and GPG — the more people who use these tools “the safer we all are,” Judd said. The NSA, for example, may notice an encrypted email and try to decrypt it, but there’s a possibility it may just include lunch plans, he said.

Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw

An Ars reader by the name of Jerry got a nasty surprise as he was browsing the contents of his external hard drive over the weekend—a mysterious text file warning him that he had been hacked thanks to a critical vulnerability in the Asus router he used to access the drive from various locations on his local network.

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Taken together, the attacks are a sign that routers and other Internet-connected devices are being subject to the same in-the-wild attacks that have plagued PCs—and in some cases Macs—for years. Readers are advised to lock down their routers by installing any available firmware updates, changing any default passwords, and ensuring that remote administration, Cloud, and FTP options are set to off if they're not needed.

Massive DDoS Attack Leveraged Network Timing Protocol: CloudFlare

Yubico Extends Two-Factor Authentication to CERN

Bizarre attack infects Linksys routers with self-replicating malware

Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

Top spam-killer server program SpamAssasin gets new release

If you really hate spam, and you run your own e-mail servers, you'll be glad to know that Apache has released a new version of its award-winning, open-source anti-spam program SpamAssassin.

Effective Spam and Malware Countermeasures - Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools

GoDaddy owns up to role in epic Twitter account hijacking

GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of its employees fell victim to a social engineering attack allowing a hacker to take over a customer’s domain names and eventually extort a coveted Twitter user name from him. PayPal, which the victim claimed also played a role in the attack, denied the accusations.