Two years after the NSA surveillance story broke, DuckDuckGo hasn’t stopped growing. When it first launched, DuckDuckGo seemed like it couldn’t possibly be serious. Link: How DuckDuckGo Rode A Wave Of Post-Snowden Anxiety To Massive Growth
LastPass is warning customers to change their master passwords as a result of recent suspicious activity on its network. Though LastPass claims that the vault storing user passwords was not accessed, the company is warning users to change their master passwords. Link: LastPass warns customers to change master passwords following suspicious activity
A solicitation on FedBizOpps from the Navy asks security researchers to sell them their “vulnerability intelligence, exploit reports and operational exploit binaries affecting widely used and relied upon commercial software. Link: Navy openly solicits for 0-day bugs to weaponize
Samsung is among several technology companies working towards expansion into mobile payment platforms, and the company’s upcoming smartwatches may get NFC to enable payments. Link: Samsung Smartwatch May Include Mobile Payments Function
Patator is an extremely flexible, module, multi-threaded, multi-purpose service & URL brute forcing tool written in Python that can be used in many ways. Basically the author got tired of using Medusa, Hydra, ncrack, metasploit auxiliary modules, nmap NSE scripts and the like because: Link: Patator – Multi-threaded Service & URL Brute Forcing Tool
