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Is Dolphin Browser for Android Safe?

Endpoint

October 28, 2011

MoboTap, which makes the Dolphin Browser for iOS and Android, has acknowledged that the newest version of the Android app transmits the address of every Web site a user visits back to the company’s servers. “The privacy and security implications arise when a user connects to a secure Web site (usually shown by ‘https://’ and […]
Anonymous Hackers Hit Child Porn Web Sites

Threats

October 20, 2011

Members of Anonymous claim to have taken down more than 50 child pornography Web sites and leaked the names of more than 1,500 members of one of the sites. “The Anonymous campaign began Oct. 14, when members of the hacktivist group found a cache of child-pornography websites while browsing a secret website called the Hidden […]
Amazon Claims Silk Browser Can Offer Enhanced Security

Endpoint

October 19, 2011

Because Amazon’s cloud-based Silk Browser encrypts all traffic between users and Web sites, the company says, it can improve security when being used over unprotected Wi-Fi networks. “In a dialog with digital rights watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Amazon tried to alleviate some of the fears associated with Silk’s split-browser architecture,” writes PCWorld’s Lucian […]
Two Factor Authentication: SMS vs. Tokens

Networks

September 29, 2011

The numbers are staggering. About 750 million airline passengers must remove their shoes every year because one lone nut, Richard Reid (now a resident of a supermax prison in Colorado), once tried to blow up a plane with a shoe loaded with Pentaerythritoltetranitrate (PETN). The hordes of stamping stockinged feet notwithstanding, PETN is not detectable […]
Hatch: P2Ps Are Child Porno Central

Trends

October 16, 2003

In a twisted turn of unintended consequences, the enormous success of the Internet as a distribution vehicle for pornography has created competitive pressures among smut purveyors to provide more depictions than ever of children engaging in violent and deviate sexual conduct. John G. Malcolm, deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the Justice […]