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Opera.com hacked, distributed malware signed with their certificate to probably thousand of users

Jun

2013

According to a post on the Opera Security Blog, the company suffered on June 19th “a targeted attack on internal network infrastructure”. The attackers were able to obtain at least one old and expired Opera code signing certificate, which they have used to sign some malware. This has allowed them to distribute malicious software which […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for LinkedIn

Jun

2013

More and more social media websites and not only are enabling two-factor authentication in order to secure their users better. Following Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, Microsoft now also the biggest professional network website LinkedIn has introduced two-factor authentication. Here is how to enable it in a few steps. 1. Go to your account and choose […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for Twitter

May

2013

Not a week passes without seeing in the press that some Twitter account have been hacked (as in used without authorization). Twitter tried to create more awareness about creating secure passwords and educating the users to not fall for the classical social engineering techniques. But, with over 200 million users, it is close to impossible […]

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