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2017-05-09 17:58:00 |
Mac video app HandBrake – now with free spyware (lien direct) |
Last week, crooks hacked one of the HandBrake app's download servers and used the popular video app to distribute Mac spyware. |
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2017-05-09 17:55:38 |
News in brief: Google teases Fuschia OS; Microsoft patches \'crazy bad\' flaw; Vienna raps Facebook (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-09 17:02:23 |
John Oliver unleashes his net neutrality flying monkeys on the FCC (lien direct) |
FCC says the websites problems were because of a DDoS attack, not the 'flying monkeys' unleashed by John Oliver |
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2017-05-09 15:38:07 |
Lawyers demand answers after artist forced to unlock his phone (lien direct) |
Artist who arrived home in San Francisco faced 'unconstitutional' demands to unlock his phone |
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2017-05-09 14:07:31 |
Downloading Chrome for Android? Be careful – we\'ve found an evil twin (lien direct) |
Techniques used to poison a version of the Android Chrome browser with Andr/SandRat-C, Andr/Rootnik-AH are finding their way into other apps - and into the Play Store |
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2017-05-09 12:22:25 |
Dating site users spammed with smut after \'third-party\' data leak (lien direct) |
The publisher's blaming a third-party contractor and "human error." |
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2017-05-08 17:56:13 |
News in brief: Macron shrugs off email dump; warning on new \'crazy bad\' flaw; Facebook tips on fake news (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-08 17:05:52 |
Are you encrypting your documents? Here\'s what happens when you don\'t (lien direct) |
It was bad enough when a university's unencrypted salaries spreadsheet when missing two years ago - and then it popped up again |
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2017-05-08 11:26:51 |
How to protect your boss from phishing attacks (lien direct) |
Oversharing on social media can make both individuals and the companies we work for targets for spearphishers and whalers. Here are our tips to help stop that happening |
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2017-05-05 17:58:53 |
The Google-phish-that-was-also-a-worm – what happened and what to do (lien direct) |
More on that Google-phish-and-worm saga, with some tips on what to do now, and how to avoid this sort of thing in the future. |
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2017-05-05 17:44:26 |
News in brief: Uber faces criminal probe; Cassini dives through Saturn\'s rings; police fined for data breach (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-05 17:37:38 |
Bank accounts raided after crooks exploit huge flaw in mobile networks (lien direct) |
The SS7 protocol has always been vulnerable - and now the carriers' complacency has come home to roost |
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2017-05-05 13:30:55 |
Listen up: is this really who you think it is talking? (lien direct) |
Lyrebird, an AI startup, can produce uncannily good versions of real people's voices. What does it mean for identity fraud? |
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2017-05-05 11:35:17 |
Celebrity \'extortion\': judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone (lien direct) |
The Miami case is just the latest in a line of cases where law enforcement has wanted to get at data stored on someone's cellphone |
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2017-05-04 16:47:45 |
News in brief: UHD Blu-ray encryption \'cracked\'; WhatsApp falls over; Gmail boosts phish protection (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-04 14:11:00 |
Going travelling? Don\'t drop your guard when you\'re on the road (lien direct) |
Cybercriminals don't take holidays, as recent breaches show: here are some tips to keep your data safe while you travel |
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2017-05-04 13:01:37 |
Have you got what it takes to hack the US Air Force? (lien direct) |
The DoD's biggest bug bounty program ever opens for registration on May 15 to vetted hackers from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the US |
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2017-05-04 11:50:03 |
Student claims Google Docs blast was a test, not a phishing attempt (lien direct) |
So what happened - how did the attack start and spread, and what can you do to protect yourself? Here's our advice |
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2017-05-04 11:23:33 |
NSA collected records of 151m Americans – but wait, didn\'t bulk collection stop three years ago? (lien direct) |
How did the NSA end up collecting the records of so many people on 2015 when it was only authorized to go after 42 suspected terrorists? |
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2017-05-03 17:51:02 |
News in brief: China steps up news oversight; Intel patches flaw; Zuck pledges better moderation (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-03 16:30:22 |
BASIC turns 53 – find out just how cool that is! (lien direct) |
There aren't a lot of quasi-religious moments in computer science, but the official launch of Dartmouth BASIC 53 years ago was one of them. |
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2017-05-03 15:36:47 |
Concern mounts at Indian ID scheme as portals \'leak\' 100m people\'s details (lien direct) |
India's controversial Aadhaar biometrics ID card scheme is increasingly needed for everything from travel to banking, yet worries are growing about the security of the data held on citizens |
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2017-05-03 14:08:22 |
Tinder orders researcher to remove dataset of 40,000 profile pictures (lien direct) |
Faces scraped from Tinder were being used to train artificial intelligence, according to the researcher |
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2017-05-03 10:46:17 |
Want to get your Android phone purring? Don\'t install Full Optimizer (lien direct) |
Full Optimizer and its little brother, Full Optimizer Lite, don't optimize your phone - instead they aggressively deliver ads. Here's what SophosLabs has learned about these apps |
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2017-05-02 17:57:30 |
News in brief: China plans its own Wikipedia; social media firms face huge fines; TalkTalk duo plead guilty (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-02 17:20:24 |
Fraudsters draining accounts with \'SIM swaps\' – what to do (lien direct) |
If crooks can get a new SIM issued in your name, they take over your phone number and your text messages... and your phone goes dead. |
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2017-05-02 16:40:46 |
Netflix declines to pay Orange is the New Black ransom to hacker (lien direct) |
It's never great when a company has a data breach and IP is stolen - but perhaps this one isn't so bad for Netflix after all |
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2017-05-02 14:43:38 |
GE patches flaws allowing attackers to \'disconnect power grid at will\' (lien direct) |
Patches come in response to notification of a talk at Black Hat discussing how hackers 'broke the homebrew encryption algorithm |
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2017-05-02 13:08:45 |
Fox News \'hacked Andrea Tantaros\', says lawsuit (lien direct) |
Fox 'hacked' Tantaros's devices to install a keylogger, claim her lawyers, and used the information they found to harass her |
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2017-05-02 11:03:58 |
Super Free Music Player in Google Play is malware: a technical analysis (lien direct) |
Listening to tunes via Super Free Music Player on your Android phone? If so, get rid of it: it's malware, and here's what we've learned about it |
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2017-04-28 17:31:26 |
News in brief: Kashmir blocks social media; \'whaling\' victims revealed; TalkTalk GDPR fine \'would be £59m\' (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-04-28 16:13:22 |
Facebook admits it is being used as propaganda tool by \'malicious actors\' (lien direct) |
Facebook's soul-searching report sets itself the challenge of knowing itself |
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2017-04-28 12:39:29 |
Lawmaker calls on ISPs to stop customers being hit by viruses (lien direct) |
Australian minister says government is considering moving towards 'active defence ... blocking or diverting malicious traffic' |
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2017-04-28 11:11:21 |
Sports fans protest at plans to scan their faces as they head for the match (lien direct) |
Police to use facial recognition to match Champions League fans to 'persons of interest' as they arrive for the UEFA Cup final |
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2017-04-28 10:27:59 |
FCC: net neutrality is \'politically motivated government overreach\' (lien direct) |
FCC chief signals assault on rules from the days of Ma Bell used by Obama to guarantee net neutrality |
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2017-04-27 17:34:18 |
News in brief: Cassini dives into Saturn\'s rings; Mexican pirate site move; Twitter under fire from spooks (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-04-27 16:47:08 |
Discovery of 8,800 servers sends warning to Asian cybercriminals (lien direct) |
Move shows the importance of international co-operation to take down cybercrime at its roots |
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2017-04-27 16:37:51 |
Banks confident of their approach to security – but still get hit by hackers (lien direct) |
How well does your bank look after your details? The financial institutions are pretty confident they're doing a good job |
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2017-04-27 12:10:08 |
Samsung Smart TV flaw leaves devices open to hackers (lien direct) |
Researchers warn that the TV's lack of authentication means that a hacker could use it to access your Wi-Fi network |
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2017-04-27 10:57:35 |
Murder victim\'s Fitbit contradicts husband\'s version of events (lien direct) |
Police gathered evidence from Fitbit, home alarm, Facebook, phone and credit cards to piece together timeline of events leading up to woman's death |
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2017-04-26 17:51:34 |
Do you know where your old email addresses are? (lien direct) |
A big UK mobile provider is about to kill of a whole list of old email domains. We look at what can go wrong when old email addresses die. |
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2017-04-26 17:19:37 |
News in brief: celebs\' phone hacking settled; German court raps Facebook; Ashley Madison victims hit again (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-04-26 15:04:40 |
How much are you giving away to fraudsters on Facebook? (lien direct) |
It takes only three pieces of personal information to steal your identity - here's our guide to protecting yourself on Facebook |
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2017-04-26 11:02:57 |
Why ransomware continues to dominate conference agendas, despite being \'old news\' (lien direct) |
While there are still victims of ransomware who feel they have no option but to pay up, we'll continue to focus on it |
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2017-04-26 10:35:20 |
More LastPass flaws: researcher pokes holes in 2FA (lien direct) |
LastPass has been in the news again for another chink in its armour - though it has now been fixed, you'll be glad to hear |
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2017-04-25 17:59:33 |
Healthcare CERT warns about \'Mole\' ransomware – what you need to know (lien direct) |
More ransomware: this one changes your file extensions to .MOLE, thus the name. |
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2017-04-25 16:52:36 |
News in brief: Uber under fire in \'Hell\' lawsuit; Europe could be hit by laptop ban; Fancy Bear \'targeted Macron\' (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-04-25 13:25:57 |
Russian \'pioneer\' of identity theft and card fraud jailed for 27 years (lien direct) |
Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian MP, has received the longest ever sentence for hacking to be handed down in the US |
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2017-04-25 11:07:56 |
Trump\'s promise on cybersecurity: what\'s been happening? (lien direct) |
Work behind the scenes suggests that an executive order on cybersecurity could be signed by the end of the week |
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2017-04-25 09:46:02 |
Apple threatened to oust Uber from App Store for \'fingerprinting\' iPhones (lien direct) |
Questions remain over if and how Uber still tracks devices after chief exec Kalanick was summoned to Apple for a roasting |
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