Security

Appeals court rejects man’s claim he owns half of Facebook

Pushdo spamming botnet gains strength again

Google’s push to encrypt ads will improve security, but won’t kill malvertising

Twitter accounts outside of the US now fall under EU data protection rules

Wordfence plugin secures WordPress sites; solves job from hell

Intrusion detection, firewalling, and sophisticated password auditing; Wordfence does it all

RSA to feature talk by hacker whose ‘funny’ tweet got him yanked from a plane

FBI seizes his computers, external drives but lets Chris Roberts go

US intelligence outfit wants the ultimate quantum qubit

IARPA wants to cultivate quantum computing’s central component

Gurucul identifies cloud threats based on identity, behaviors

Identity-based threat detection can spot threats from within and without

8 cloud companies to watch following MONSTER funding week

Investors pour $350 million into cloud companies involved in Hadoop clusters, IT security and other markets

Pawn Storm cyberespionage group increases activity, targets NATO