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2018-03-27 15:11:03 | New Site Resurrects CrackMe Challenges From the Old Crackmes.de (lien direct) | If you are learning how to reverse engineer or already know how, but want to test your skills, a common tool to use is a CrackMe. CrackMes are small programs that can be used to learn how to crack, or break the copy protection, of software without using legitimate copyrighted applications. [...] | |||
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2018-03-27 14:37:04 | Apple Unveils a New 9.7″ iPad With Pencil Support (lien direct) | Today at an education event in Chicago, Apple unveiled a new 9.7" iPad that can be purchased now for $329 USD. This new iPad also includes a higher-resolution touch sensor, which adds compatibility for the Apple Pencil. This makes it ideal for an education setting where students can write on it to perform assignments. [...] | |||
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2018-03-27 13:35:04 | Windows Insider Build 17133 Is Released as Final Code is Checked In (lien direct) | Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17133 for PC to insiders in the fast ring. This build contains some minor bug fixes and Microsoft has stated that they are now checking in the final code in preparation for the Spring Creators Update being released. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-27 12:18:02 | Firefox Add-On Isolates Facebook Tracking From the Rest of the Browser (lien direct) | The Mozilla Foundation released today a Firefox add-on that isolates the Facebook website and all its domains to a separate "container," effectively stopping Facebook from tracking users across other websites on the Web. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-27 10:41:05 | Academics Discover New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named BranchScope (lien direct) | A team of academics from four US universities have discovered a new side-channel attack that takes advantage of the speculative execution feature in modern processors to recover data from users' CPUs. [...] | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-27 08:30:01 | VirusBay Aims To Make Malware Analysis More Social (lien direct) | For those looking to learn about and share malware samples, a site called VirusBay may be what you are looking for. VirusBay's goal is to make malware analysis more social by providing a place for researchers to upload samples, request samples, and discuss them with other researchers. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-27 06:17:04 | In-Browser Cryptojacking Is Getting Harder to Detect (lien direct) | Cryptojacking actors find new ways to evade detection by antivirus solutions, ad blockers, and dedicated browser extensions. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-27 01:00:00 | Iranian Hackers Charged Last Week Were Actually Pretty Damn Good Phishers (lien direct) | The group of Iranian hackers the US charged last week with hacking over 300 universities across the globe were actually master phishers astute at their craft, so much so that they used the same phishing lure for years without needing to change it. [...] | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-26 19:01:05 | Microsoft May Ban Users For Offensive Language Starting In May (lien direct) | Civil rights advocate Jonathan Corbett did us a favor and did something that most of us never do. He decided to read an updated Terms of Service agreement from Microsoft that he was sent via email and discovered some interesting changes. [...] | |||
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2018-03-26 18:10:03 | Google Rolls Out Mobile-First Indexing But Still Doesn\'t Split Search in Two (lien direct) | Google announced today a shift to "mobile-first indexing," a move which means that Google search crawlers will look at a site's mobile version before the desktop one. [...] | |||
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2018-03-26 14:15:01 | GoScanSSH Malware Avoids Government and Military Servers (lien direct) | Security experts have discovered a new strain of malware that targets vulnerable Linux-based systems and tries its best to avoid infecting devices on government and military networks. [...] | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-26 11:48:00 | HiddnAd and Guerilla Adware Removed From the Google Play Store (lien direct) | Google security staffers have removed 22 Android apps reported to have been infected with the HiddnAd and Guerilla adware families. [...] | |||
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2018-03-26 08:51:03 | Leader of Carbanak (Cobalt) Hacker Group Who Stole Over €1BIL Arrested in Spain (lien direct) | Europol announced today that Spanish police has arrested a man suspect of being the mastermind behind the Carbanak hacking group, known for some of the biggest bank cyber-heists in recent years. [...] | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-26 00:30:00 | Chrome Extension Detects URL Homograph (Unicode) Attacks (lien direct) | The team from Phish.ai has developed and released a Google Chrome extension that can detect when users are accessing domains spelled using non-standard Unicode characters and warn the users about the potential of a homograph attack. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-25 09:05:02 | IETF Approves TLS 1.3 as Internet Standard (lien direct) | The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) âthe organization that approves proposed Internet standards and protocolsâ has formally approved TLS 1.3 as the next major version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. [...] | |||
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2018-03-24 21:00:02 | Facebook Collected Call and SMS Metadata From Some Users\' Smartphones (lien direct) | Several Facebook users who downloaded an archive of their Facebook data in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal discovered this week that the social network's mobile applications have been recording âin some casesâ much more information than most people were expecting. [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-24 18:46:01 | The DiskWriter or UselessDisk BootLocker May Be A Wiper (lien direct) | [...] | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-24 17:55:03 | Firefox Working on Protection Against In-Browser Cryptojacking Scripts (lien direct) | Firefox engineers are working on a method to address the recent rise in usage of in-browser miners (cryptojacking scripts) that are, in most cases, ruining the web surfing experience of most users. [...] | |||
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2018-03-24 10:49:00 | Windows Insider Build 17128 Removes the Preview Watermark From Desktop (lien direct) | Yesterday Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17128 for PC to insiders in the fast ring. This build contains no new features, no bug fixes, and no list of issues.  The only difference between this build and 17127 is that they removed the watermark at the bottom right of the desktop. [...] | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-23 19:40:00 | The Week in Ransomware - March 23rd 2018 - Govt Infections, Zenis, and More (lien direct) | This week was definitely a lot busier than the previous one. During the past two weeks we have had some interesting ransomware released such as Zenis, which deletes files associated with backups, and AVCrypt that tries to uninstall your security software. We also had a bunch of organizations affected by SamSam. [...] | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-23 18:44:03 | Rapid 2.0 Ransomware Released, Will Not Encrypt Data on PCs with Russian Locale (lien direct) | Precisely two months on the day since the release of its first version, the group behind the Rapid ransomware strain has released v2.0 today. [...] | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-23 15:51:04 | The AVCrypt Ransomware Tries To Uninstall Your AV Software (lien direct) | A new ransomware named AVCrypt has been discovered that tries to uninstall existing security software before it encrypts a computer. Furthermore, as it removes numerous services, including Windows Update, and provides no contact information, this ransomware may be a wiper. [...] | |||
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2018-03-23 11:20:00 | US Charges Nine Iranians With Hacking Over 300 Universities (lien direct) | US authorities have charged nine Iranian hackers with cyber-attacks against 144 US universities, 176 universities in 21 foreign countries, and 47 US and foreign companies active in various private sectors. [...] | |||
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2018-03-23 09:54:02 | Low-Cost IPad May Be Unveiled at Next Weeks Education Event (lien direct) | This Tuesday at an education event in Chicago, Bloomberg is reporting that Apple will be unveiling a "low-cost iPad" aimed towards schools and educators. Â [...] | |||
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2018-03-23 09:22:00 | US Congress Passes CLOUD Act Hidden in Budget Spending Bill (lien direct) | The United States Congress passed late last night a $1.3 trillion budget spending bill that also contained a piece of legislation that allows internal and foreign law enforcement access to user data stored online without a search warrant or probable cause. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 17:58:00 | City of Atlanta IT Systems Hit by SamSam Ransomware (lien direct) | The Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia has confirmed today in a press conference that several local government systems are currently down due to a ransomware infection. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 17:42:01 | Opera 52 Released With Faster Ad Blocking and New Tab Functions (lien direct) | Today Opera Software released Opera 52 as the latest stable version of their software. This version includes a faster ad blocker, new tab features, and new animations for error pages. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 17:42:01 | (Déjà vu) Opera 52 Released With Faster Ad Blocking and New Tab Features (lien direct) | Today Opera Software released Opera 52 as the latest stable version of their software. This version includes a faster ad blocker, new tab features, and new animations for error pages. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 15:10:01 | CoinMiner Campaigns Move to the Cloud via Docker, Kubernetes (lien direct) | After becoming a scourge inside browsers, on desktops, and on servers, cryptocurrency-mining malware is now invading the cloud, and it appears to be quite successful. [...] | Uber | ||
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2018-03-22 09:36:04 | Massive Stack Overflow 100K User Survey Reveals Today\'s Hottest Technologies (lien direct) | Every year, the Stack Overflow team polls its userbase on various topics, in what has now become the most anticipated survey on the developer market, mainly because its results are the most accurate indicators of rising/falling programming trends, salary medians, and workforce diversity. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 05:51:02 | Top Security Execs at Google, Facebook, and Twitter Announce Departures (lien direct) | In the span of three days, news broke that high-ranking security at executives at three of the Internet's most important tech firms âGoogle, Facebook, and Twitterâ announced plans to leave their respective companies. [...] | |||
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2018-03-22 01:00:00 | TrickBot Banking Trojan Gets Screenlocker Component (lien direct) | The most recent version of the TrickBot banking trojan now includes a screenlocker component, suggesting the malware's operators might soon start holding victims for ransom if infected targets don't appear to be e-banking users. [...] | |||
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2018-03-21 15:45:03 | Reddit Bans Community Dedicated to Dark Web Markets (lien direct) | Reddit has banned /r/DarkNetMarkets, the site's biggest community dedicated to discussions related to Dark Web marketplaces âsites dedicated to selling illegal products varying from weapons, drugs, malware, data breaches, DDoS services, fraud services, and more. [...] | |||
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2018-03-21 13:57:02 | Google Deploys New Anti-Phishing & Malware Detection Features for G Suite Users (lien direct) | Google rolled out today new security features for G Suite, its collection of enterprise, cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools. [...] | |||
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2018-03-21 10:55:03 | New R2D2 Technique Protects Files Against Wiper Malware (lien direct) | Purdue University scientists have developed a data protection technique called Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction (R2D2) that can protect data sitting inside a virtual machine from modern data-wiping malware and even some secure file deletion methods. [...] | |||
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2018-03-21 07:28:03 | Radio Hacker Who Interrupted Police Chase Gets 21 Months in Prison (lien direct) | Australian authorities have tracked down, arrested, charged, and sentenced a man who hacked a police radio system and interrupted a police chase at the end of August 2017. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 18:51:00 | Windows Remote Assistance Tool Can Be Used for Targeted Attacks (lien direct) | The Windows Remote Assistance tool that ships with all Windows distributions can be can be abused for clever hacks in targeted attacks. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 17:39:00 | AMD Confirms RyzenFall, MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | AMD has officially confirmed the validity of the RyzenFall, MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities that came to light on March 12, and said it would be releasing patches in "the coming weeks." [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 17:13:01 | "Social Book Post Manager" Chrome Extension Lets You Wipe Your Facebook Profile (lien direct) | With the recent report of Facebook user's data being harvested and used for information warfare, many people are looking to delete their accounts or at least their Facebook posts in order to have a clean slate. Deleting posts, though, can be a very time consuming task as you normally would have to go into each and every post and manu [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 15:22:01 | Windows Insider Build 17127 Released with Cortana Improvements (lien direct) | Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17127 for PC to insiders in the fast ring. Like the previous build, they continue to iron out issues with Windows Mixed Reality, but also includes improvements to Cortana. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 14:35:05 | Facebook Pulls Back Investigators as UK Launches Probe Into Cambridge Analytica (lien direct) | UK authorities will seek a warrant to probe the computer systems of Cambridge Analytica, the company blamed for covertly siphoning the data of over 50 million Facebook users. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 14:03:05 | Hardware Hacker Converts Old Mobile Terminal Into Fallout-Like Computer (lien direct) | Using old dusty hardware being sold on eBay, hardware hackers can transform them into modern devices that perform tasks that they were never intended. Such is the case when hardware hacker Trammel Hudson discovered some Motorola MDT-9100T Mobile Data Terminals being sold on eBay that looked straight from the Fallout universe. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 08:30:01 | Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes (lien direct) | Microsoft said on Friday that the upcoming Windows 10 major feature upgrade âdubbed the Spring Creators Updateâ will take around 30 minutes to install, unlike previous variants that took between one and two hours to complete. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 08:00:00 | DDoS Attacks Are $10 per Hour on the Dark Web (lien direct) | A report released today by UK threat intelligence firm Armor shines a light on the prices practiced on Dark Web markets for a wide range of cybercrime-related services. [...] | |||
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2018-03-20 07:00:03 | Mozilla Is Testing "DNS over HTTPS" Support in Firefox (lien direct) | Mozilla Foundation engineers announced plans over the weekend to test the "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH) fledgling security standard in Firefox Nightly distributions. [...] | |||
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2018-03-19 17:00:05 | Uber Self-Driving Car Strikes and Kills Arizona Woman (lien direct) | An Uber self-driving car has struck and killed a woman pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, the company has revealed today. [...] | Uber | ||
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2018-03-19 15:17:01 | China Bans People With Low "Social Credit" From Planes and Trains (lien direct) | Chinese authorities plan to use the country's mysterious "social credit" database to ban people guilty of past unruly behavior from purchasing plane and train tickets for up to a year. [...] | |||
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2018-03-19 14:54:04 | Chrome Being Slow? Here\'s 6 Ways to Speed It Up (lien direct) | Google Chrome is typically a reliable and quick browser, but like anything else, it can slow down over time. When it does, the resultant experience can cause frustration and limit your productivity. By trying a few simple tips, though, you can boost the speed and make your internet experiences pleasant again. [...] | |||
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2018-03-19 14:05:03 | IBM Reveals a Computer the Size of a Grain of Salt (lien direct) | Today, IBM will be showing off the world's smallest computer at its Think 2018 conference. This computer is the size of a grain of salt, contains a million transistors, and only costs .10 to manufacture. [...] | |||
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2018-03-19 11:39:00 | How To Restore The View Image Button to Google Images (lien direct) | As part of a settlement between Google and Getty Images, Google has agreed to remove the popular "View Image" button when viewing an image in Google Images. This is a very popular feature that has upset many people who routinely use the Google Images service. [...] |
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