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2017-11-21 20:00:00 | Broadband Providers Win Big with the Proposed Repeal of Net Neutrality (lien direct) | In an announcement today,ÂÂ FCC Chairman Ajit Pai stated that he has circulated a draft order for the repeal of Obama's Net Neutrality regulations and and the restoration of "Internet Freedom". This draft has been circulated amongÂÂ the other FCC commissioners for a vote at aÂÂ December 14thÂÂ meeting, where it is anticipated to be approved. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 19:16:44 | Uber Supposedly Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Quiet About a 2016 Data Breach (lien direct) | Uber confirmed that hackers breached some part of its network in October 2016 and made off with personal data for 50 million users and 7 million drivers. [...] | Uber | ||
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2017-11-21 14:45:14 | Popular Websites Are Recording Your Every Move (lien direct) | 482 of the Alexa top 50,000 sites are recording their users' every moves, keystrokes and mouse movements included. This data is then sent to an analytics dashboard, not all times in a secure manner. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 13:13:07 | Minecraft Now Supports Windows Mixed Reality for an Immersive Experience (lien direct) | Today, Microsoft released MinecraftÂÂ version 1.2.552.0, which includes support for Windows Mixed Reality. Simply plug in any supported Windows Mixed Reality headset and you can dive right into an immersive MinecraftÂÂ experience. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 11:00:51 | FBI Charges Iranian National Behind HBO Hack (lien direct) | The FBI and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will announce official charges later today against Behzad Mesri, an Iranian national, for allegedly hacking HBO, attempting to extort the company into paying a ransom, and leaking then-unreleased episodes and scripts for HBO TV series, including Game of Thrones. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 08:55:18 | NoScript Add-On Updated for Firefox 57 and the New WebExtensions API (lien direct) | Six days after Mozilla launched Firefox 57, a revamped version of the Firefox browser, Giorgio Maone, the developer of the NoScript add-on, has updated NoScript to work with Firefox's new WebExtensions add-ons API. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 07:02:30 | Intel Fixes Critical Bugs in Management Engine, Its Secret CPU-On-Chip (lien direct) | Intel published a security advisory last night detailing eight vulnerabilities that impact core CPU technologies such as the Intel Management Engine (ME), Intel Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE). [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 04:57:00 | TP-Link Offers Outdated or No Firmware at All on 30% of Its European Sites (lien direct) | TP-Link's European sites are falling behind when it comes to providing firmware updates, said Daniel Aleksandersen, a Norwegian technology expert, on Monday. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 02:16:58 | Cryptocurrency Startup Claims Hackers Stole $30.95 Million (lien direct) | In an official statement posted on its website yesterday, Tether, a startup that offers 1-to-1 dollar-backed digital tokens [USDT], said a hacker stole funds worth $30,950,010. [...] | |||
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2017-11-21 01:00:00 | Four Years Later, We Have a New OWASP Top 10 (lien direct) | The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has published a new version of its infamous Top 10 vulnerability ranking, four years after its last update, in 2013. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 20:39:08 | Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time (lien direct) | Microsoft is providing a free virtual machine that comes preloaded with Windows 10 Enterprise, Visual Studio 2017, and various utilities in order to promote the development ofÂÂ Universal Windows Platform apps.ÂÂ Before you get too excited about a free version of Windows 10 Enterprise, this Virtual Machine expires on January 15th 2018. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 18:50:22 | Amazon, Microsoft Launch Secret Cloud Servers for the US Intelligence Community (lien direct) | Today, Amazon announced a new offering named "AWS Secret Region," which is a cloud server region for use only by US intelligence agencies and their third-party contractors. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 17:23:39 | 82% of the Code on GitHub Consists of Clones of Previously Created Files (lien direct) | Most source code files hosted on GitHub are actually clones of previously created files, according to a recent study conducted by a joint team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, the Czech Technical University, Microsoft Research, and Northeastern University. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 13:47:28 | SSL Certificate Provider StartCom Shuts Down After Browser Ban (lien direct) | Certificate Authority (CA) StartCom announced last week, on Friday, its intention to cease operations by 2018, and completely shut down its certificate infrastructure by 2020. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 10:56:50 | Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation (lien direct) | Unbeknown to most users, Mozilla added a privacy-enhancing feature to the Firefox browser over the summer that can help users block online advertisers from tracking them across the Internet. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 05:41:49 | Wp-Vcd WordPress Malware Campaign Is Back (lien direct) | WordPress site owners should be on the lookout for a malware strain tracked as wp-vcd that hides in legitimate WordPress files and that is used to add a secret admin user and grant attackers control over infected sites. [...] | |||
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2017-11-20 00:05:00 | Terdot Banking Trojan Grows Into a Sophisticated Threat (lien direct) | Everything else is new, and there's a lot of it. According to Bitdefender, Terdot can also operate a local MitM proxy server to sniff and reroute web traffic, can target more than just banking sites, and can also download and execute files from a remote server. [...] | |||
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2017-11-19 20:00:12 | Android Bug Lets Attackers Record Audio & Screen Activity on 3 of 4 Smartphones (lien direct) | Android smartphones running Lolipop, Marshmallow, and Nougat, are vulnerable to an attack that exploits the MediaProjection service to capture the user's screen and record system audio [...] | |||
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2017-11-18 16:05:58 | Microsoft Appears to Have Lost the Source Code of an Office Component (lien direct) | The way Microsoft patched a recent security bug has made several security and software experts believe the company might have lost the source code to one of its Office components. [...] | |||
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2017-11-18 11:30:47 | Microsoft\'s Black Friday Deals on Xbox One, Surface Laptop, and the Surface Pro (lien direct) | Microsoft has released their Black Friday promotions with deals on the new Surface Pro, the Surface Laptop, Xbox consoles and games, and virtual reality headsets.ÂÂ Most of these deals are starting on Monday, but discounts on Xbox gamesÂÂ have already started. [...] | |||
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2017-11-18 03:00:00 | Microsoft Updates Cause Old Epson Printers to Malfunction (lien direct) | Microsoft confirmed that six updates the company delivered this week as part of the November 2017 Patch Tuesday are causing Epson dot matrix printers to malfunction. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 20:00:00 | The Week in Ransomware - November 17th 2017 - CryptoMix and Targeted Attacks (lien direct) | This week was for the most part only small variants released. Of particular interest is the release of two CryptoMixÂÂ variants and a in-development ransomware that is specifically targeting the J.Sterling Morton high school students through a fake student survey. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 18:40:27 | US Military Database Holding Web-Monitoring Data Left Exposed Online (lien direct) | A security researcher revealed today he found three misconfigured Amazon S3 servers belonging to the US Department of Defense (DOD) containing 1.8 billion social media and forum posts made by users from all over the world, including many by Americans. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 16:55:01 | 0000 Cryptomix Ransomware Variant Released (lien direct) | A new CryptoMix Ransomware variant was discovered that appends the .0000ÂÂ extension to encrypted files and changes the contact emails used by the ransomware.ÂÂ This article will provide a brief description on the changes in this variant. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 15:31:46 | Play Overwatch Free this Weekend & 50% Off Black Friday Deal Available Now (lien direct) | Blizzard has made Overwatch free-to-play for this weekend and have started Black Friday early by taking 50% off OverWatch until November 27th for subscribers to Xbox Live Gold or Playstation Plus. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 08:05:09 | China Delays Vulnerability Disclosure Process on Important Bugs (lien direct) | The Chinese vulnerability disclosure program is lagging behind when it comes to publishing details about critical flaws and vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese-linked cyber-espionage groups. [...] | |||
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2017-11-17 04:32:17 | Oracle Products Affected by Critical JOLTandBLEED Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | Oracle has issued an out-of-band emergency security update to address five vulnerabilities, among which one is rated 10 out of 10 on the CVSSv3 bug severity scale, and a second was rated 9.9 out of 10. [...] | ★★★ | ||
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2017-11-17 00:30:00 | Github Will Warn Developers About Vulnerable Dependencies in Their Projects (lien direct) | GitHub — the Internet largest code hosting service — is rolling out a new security feature through which it hopes to reduce the number of vulnerable projects hosted and distributed through its platform. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-11-16 19:00:00 | Senator Asks White House Cyber Chief to Block Malicious Ads on Government Networks (lien direct) | A US senator has asked the White House to look into the threat that malicious ads —also known as malvertising— pose to US government networks and computers. [...] | |||
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2017-11-16 18:34:20 | Windows 10 Insider Build 17040 for PC Brings New Insert and Join Gestures (lien direct) | Today MicrosoftÂÂ releasedÂÂ Insider Preview BuildÂÂ 17035 for PC to insiders on the fast ring and to those who opted to Skip Ahead. The new features in this build revolve around new HDR and Ease of Access settings,ÂÂ keyboard improvements, and handwriting gestures. [...] | |||
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2017-11-16 17:03:33 | Malaysian Police Identifies Suspects Behind Massive 46.2 Million Data Breach (lien direct) | Malaysian authorities announced today they had identified the possible authors of a massive data breach that took place a month ago and during which the personal details of 46.2 Malaysians were put up for sale on the Dark Web and various forums. [...] | |||
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2017-11-16 12:00:59 | Dark Web Shops Are Leaking IPs Left and Right (lien direct) | The takedown of three major Dark Web markets by law enforcement officials over the summer has driven many vendors of illegal products to set up their own shops that, in many cases, are not properly configured and are leaking the underlying server's IP address. [...] | |||
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2017-11-16 08:00:14 | Firefox Will Block Navigational Data URIs as Part of an Anti-Phishing Feature (lien direct) | Mozilla will soon block the loading of data URIs in the Firefox navigation bar as part of a crackdown on phishing sites that abuse this protocol. [...] | |||
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2017-11-16 04:38:38 | Google Faces Antitrust Investigation in Missouri (lien direct) | Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said on Monday in a press conference that his office has issued a subpoena to Google seeking information on the company's business practices. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 23:00:00 | Spam Bots Bombards Victims With Star Wars Quotes and Links to Gambling Apps (lien direct) | In one of the weirdest things you'll hear today, a spam botnet has been randomly selecting text from a Star Wars novel and sending it to victims, alongside with download links to online gambling apps. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 20:35:07 | New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause (lien direct) | The European Union (EU) has voted on Tuesday to pass the new Consumer Protection Cooperation regulation, a new EU-wide applicable law that gives extra power to national consumer protection agencies, but which also contains a vaguely worded clause that also grants them the power to block websites without judicial oversight. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 18:01:59 | Ransomware Targets J. Sterling Morton High School Students With Fake Survey (lien direct) | An in-development ransomware has been discovered that is targeting the high school students of the J. Sterling Morton school district in Illinois. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 13:35:21 | Blizzard Makes StarCraft 2 Free to Play, Learn How to Get It (lien direct) | Yesterday, the immensely popular real-time strategy game StarCraft II was released as free-to-play. Learn how you can get it and what features are available. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 12:50:13 | Second OnePlus Factory App Discovered. This One Dumps Photos, WiFi & GPS Logs (lien direct) | A security researcher has found a second factory app that was included on OnePlus devices delivered to customers, and this one can be abused to dump the user's photos and videos, but also GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and various other logs. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 11:02:22 | BlueBorne Vulnerability Also Affects 20Mil Amazon Echo and Google Home Devices (lien direct) | Over 20 million Amazon Echo and Google Home devices running on Android and Linux are vulnerable to attacks via the BlueBorne vulnerability, IoT cyber-security firm Armis announced today. [...] | |||
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2017-11-15 09:10:32 | Google Play Store Sees Sudden Surge of Malicious Apps (lien direct) | The Google Play Store is seeing a wave of malware-infested apps like never before. Four separate security companies have reported —or are preparing to release reports— on malware campaigns currently underway via Android apps available on the Play Store. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 20:12:23 | Office Equation Editor Security Bug Runs Malicious Code Without User Interaction (lien direct) | Microsoft has patched today a huge security hole in Microsoft Office that could be exploited to run malicious code without user interaction on all Windows versions released in the past 17 years. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 16:36:09 | Russia\'s "Irrefutable Evidence" That US Aided ISIS Is Actually a Video Game Screengrab (lien direct) | The Russian Defense Ministry made a fool of itself today when it posted on Twitter and Facebook "irrefutable evidence" that the US aided ISIS, which turned out to be screengrabs from a well-known video game and a video published online by the Iraqi military in 2016. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 16:21:03 | Upgrading to Firefox Quantum? Expect Some Add-ons to No Longer Work (lien direct) | MozillaÂÂ Firefox Quantum was released today and it's definitely better, but it also caused many popular add-ons to no longer work. This is because Quantum, or Firefox 57, switched to only supporting extensions designed under the WebExtensionsÂÂ API, which caused older extensions designed using other APIs to no longer be compatible. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 14:00:28 | Microsoft November Patch Tuesday Fixes 53 Security Issues (lien direct) | Microsoft has released security updates for several products as part of the company's November 2017 Patch Tuesday, the company's monthly update train. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 13:36:14 | Browse-Secure Extension Harvests Contact Info from Facebook and LinkedIn (lien direct) | A new Chrome extension called Browse-Secure is taking your contact info from LinkedIn and Facebook accounts and uploading it to the developer without your permission. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 12:31:14 | Adobe Patches Security Bugs in Flash Player and Eight Other Products (lien direct) | Earlier today, Adobe has released its monthly security bulletin, and for the month of November 2017, the company patched nine products. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 11:38:55 | Windows Control Panel Links Abused in Cyber-Espionage Campaign (lien direct) | A cyber-espionage group believed to be operating out of China has been deploying malware in the past two years that disguises as control panel link (CPL) files. [...] | |||
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2017-11-14 07:38:30 | OnePlus Phones Come Preinstalled With a Factory App That Can Root Devices (lien direct) | Some OnePlus devices, if not all, come preinstalled with an application named EngineerMode that can be used to root the device and may be converted into a fully-fledged backdoor by clever attackers. [...] | |||
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2017-11-13 19:40:14 | Cookie Consent Script Drops In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miner (lien direct) | A free-to-use script that helps website owners show EU cookie consent popups is dropping an in-browser cryptocurrency miner on websites that use it. [...] |
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