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Ryan Naraine

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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.

Dancho Danchev

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Dancho Danchev

Dancho Danchev
Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, and cybercrime incident response. He's been an active security blogger since 2007, and maintains a popular security blog sharing real-time threats intelligence data with the rest of the community on a daily basis. More details on Dancho Danchev's current and past professional affiliations, can be found in his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter
Emil Protalinski

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Emil Protalinski

Emil Protalinski
Emil Protalinski has covered the tech industry for five years for multiple publications, including Neowin for two years and Ars Technica for three years. He has written 1,000s of articles for both, with a particular focus on scrutinizing Microsoft products and services. Recently, Emil has expanded his coverage to non-Microsoft technologies.

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  • Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice, leaks 1.7GB of data

    By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 4:27pm PDT

    Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release.

  • Facebook account cancellation is malware, not Adobe Flash

    By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 3:38pm PDT

    If you’re asked to confirm or deny a Facebook account cancellation request, ignore it. Facebook will never ask you this, and chances are someone is looking to install malware on your computer.

  • Malware charges users for free Android apps on Google Play

    By Emil Protalinski | May 21, 2012, 8:41am PDT

    Android users are being tricked into paying for free apps. The malware is a new variant of the Android.Opfake family that pushes fake versions of popular Android apps to unsuspecting consumers.

  • The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS

    By Emil Protalinski | May 17, 2012, 5:13am PDT

    The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.

  • Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days

    By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 5:27pm PDT

    The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it’s not clear, but something is definitely...

  • Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.2 for Windows, fixes 17 flaws

    By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 4:09pm PDT

    Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update, meaning no new features have been added. You should still update.

  • Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack

    By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 11:41am PDT

    The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Update: The Pirate Bay has confirmed the denial.

  • The Pirate Bay hit with massive DDoS attack

    By Emil Protalinski | May 16, 2012, 7:45am PDT

    The Pirate Bay is down for me. Is it down for you? It may be, since the site has confirmed it is experiencing “a quite big” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It’s...

  • Android malware families nearly quadruple from 2011 to 2012

    By Emil Protalinski | May 15, 2012, 10:01pm PDT

    F-Secure has found that between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, the number of Android malware families has increased from 10 to 37, and the number of malicious Android APKs has increased from 139 to 3,069.

  • Google Chrome 19 is out

    By Emil Protalinski | May 15, 2012, 3:01pm PDT

    Google Chrome version 19.0.1084.46 is out, fixing 20 security vulnerabilities in the company’s browser: eight high-severity flaws, seven medium-severity flaws, and five low-severity flaws.

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