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Avast: Users frequently hitting websites loaded with ransomware

Avast's user base has landed on websites hosting ransomware more than 18 million times over six weeks

Research gives reason to double-check Heartbleed fix

CIOs Must Adapt or Risk Being Replaced

Estonian electronic voting system vulnerable to attacks, researchers say

International research team finds insecure operational procedures and fundamental weaknesses in Estonian Internet voting system

Wall Street’s collapse was computer science’s gain

Computer science bachelor enrollments rise 13% last year, continuing trend

Time to modernize thinking, technology in fighting malware

CIO Discovers the ‘Terrifying’ Reality of Cloud Apps Running Wild

Rush to defend against Heartbleed leads to mistakes with certificates, patches

Some reissued SSL certificates use the same vulnerable key as the ones they replace, and some sites moved to a vulnerable version of OpenSSL

Bitly discloses account compromise, urges users to change passwords

Company said account credentials were compromised, but refused to provide details

Hackers hoped for slam dunk on Japan Basketball Association website

The sole attack using a recent IE zero-day was on the JBA's website, linked to a high-ranking government official, Symantec said