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2016-10-11 00:51:07 | Yahoo Disables Email Auto-Forwarding; Making It Harder for Users to Move On (lien direct) | Yahoo! has disabled automatic email forwarding -- a feature that lets its users forward a copy of incoming emails from one account to another.
The company has faced lots of bad news regarding its email service in past few weeks. Last month, the company admitted a massive 2014 data breach that exposed account details of over 500 Million Yahoo users.
If this wasn't enough for users to quit the
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2016-10-10 09:52:01 | Challenge! WIN $50,000 for Finding Non-traditional Ways to Detect Vulnerable IoT Devices (lien direct) | If you are concerned about the insecurity of Internet of Things, have good hands at programming and know how to hack smart devices, then you can grab an opportunity to earn $50,000 in prize money for discovering the non-traditional ways to secure IoT devices.
Internet of Things (IoT) market is going to expand rapidly over the next decade. We already have 6.5 billion to 8 billion IoT devices
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2016-10-10 03:13:42 | Turkey Blocks GitHub, Google Drive and Dropbox to Censor RedHack Leaks (lien direct) | Turkey is again in the news for banning online services, and this time, it's a bunch of sites and services offered by big technology giants.
Turkey government has reportedly blocked access to cloud storage services including Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive, as well as the code hosting service GitHub, reports censorship monitoring group Turkey Blocks.
The
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2016-10-08 02:28:24 | Yahoo Email Spying Scandal - Here\'s Everything that has Happened So Far (lien direct) | Today Yahoo! is all over the Internet, but in a way the company would never have expected.
It all started days ago when Reuters cited some anonymous sources and reported that Yahoo built a secret software to scan the emails of hundreds of millions of its users at the request of a U.S. intelligence service.
At this point, we were not much clear about the intelligence agency: the National
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2016-10-07 04:08:14 | London Police Arrest Romanian ATM Hacker Who Stole Millions (lien direct) | A Romanian man has been arrested and charged with conspiracy relating to his involvement in a prolific ATM malware campaign.
Emanual Leahu, 30, was arrested in the western city of Bacău, Romania by the London Regional Fraud Team (LRFT) London police run by the City of London Police on Tuesday 20 September, extradited to the United Kingdom last week.
Leahu is believed to be a member of a
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2016-10-07 00:22:44 | Verizon wants $1 Billion Discount on Yahoo Acquisition Deal after Recent Scandals (lien direct) | It seems like it is not all over for Yahoo yet. Another day, another bad news for Yahoo!
Verizon, which has agreed to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 Billion, is now asking for a $1 Billion discount, according to recent reports.
The request comes after Verizon Communications learned about the recent disclosures about hacking and spying in past few weeks.
Just two weeks ago, Yahoo
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2016-10-06 09:40:14 | Mac Malware Can Secretly Spy On Your Webcam and Mic – Get This Free Tool to Stay Safe (lien direct) | Apple Mac Computers are considered to be much safer than Windows at keeping viruses and malware out of its environment, but that's simply not true anymore.
It's not because Mac OS X is getting worse every day, but because hackers are getting smart and sophisticated these days.
The bad news for Mac users is that malware targeting webcams and microphones has now come up for Mac laptops as well
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2016-10-06 02:07:30 | How to Start Secret Conversations on Facebook Messenger (lien direct) | If you are looking for ways to start a secret conversation on Facebook Messenger with your friends, then you are at the right place.
In this article, I am going to tell you about Facebook Messenger's new end-to-end encrypted chat feature, dubbed "Secret Conversations," but before that, know why do you need your chats to be end-to-end encrypted?
Your online privacy is under threat not only
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2016-10-05 10:55:53 | BREAKING! Another NSA Contractor Arrested For Stealing \'Secret\' Documents (lien direct) | Another Edward Snowden? The FBI has secretly busted another National Security Agency (NSA) contractor over a massive secret data theft. The United States Justice Department charged Harold Thomas Martin, 51, with theft of highly classified government material, including "source codes" developed by the NSA to hack foreign government, according to a court complaint unsealed on Wednesday. | |||
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2016-10-05 10:38:03 | TalkTalk Telecom Ordered to Pay Record £400,000 Fine Over 2015 Data Breach (lien direct) | TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based Telecoms company with 4 million customers, has been issued with a record £400,000 ($510,000) fine for failings to implement the most basic security measures to prevent the hack that made global headlines last year.
The penalty has been imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over the high-profile cyber attack occurred in the company last
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2016-10-05 01:39:27 | Apple starts downloading MacOS Sierra automatically to your MacBook - Here\'s How to Stop It (lien direct) | Are you experiencing slow Internet speed on your MacBook today? - It's not just you!
Here's Why:
Following in Microsoft's footsteps, Apple has started "pre-downloading" the latest version of its desktop operating system, macOS 10.12 Sierra, in the background, if you are still running OS X El Capitan.
If you have automatic downloads enabled on your Mac, a large file of around
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2016-10-04 12:02:06 | Yahoo Built a Secret Tool to Scan Your Email Content for US Spy Agency (lien direct) | Users are still dealing with the Yahoo's massive data breach that exposed over 1 Billion Yahoo accounts and there's another shocking news about the company that, I bet, will blow your mind.
Yahoo might have provided your personal data to United States intelligence agency when required.
Yahoo reportedly built a custom software programmed to secretly scan all of its users' emails for specific
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2016-10-04 10:53:48 | Signal is Most Secure Messenger, \'Useless Data\' Obtained by FBI Proves It All (lien direct) | Do you trust your messaging app even though it uses end-to-end encryption?
As I previously said end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your messages are secure enough to hide your trace.
It's because most of the messaging apps still record and store a lot of metadata on your calls and messages that could reveal some of your personal information including dates and durations of communication
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2016-10-04 04:36:29 | WikiLeaks Promises to Publish Leaks on US Election, Arms Trade and Google (lien direct) | Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there's more to come.
In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential election and more over the next ten weeks.
Speaking by video link to an anniversary
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2016-10-04 02:23:48 | Beware! You Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a \'JPEG 2000\' Image (lien direct) | Researchers have disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library, which could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the affected systems.
Discovered by security researchers at Cisco Talos group, the zero-day flaw, assigned as TALOS-2016-0193/CVE-2016-8332, could allow an out-of-bound heap write to occur
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2016-10-04 00:34:35 | Download: 68 Million Hacked Dropbox Accounts are Just a Click Away! (lien direct) | Over a month ago, The Hacker News reported about the Dropbox Hack, where hackers had managed to steal more than 68 Million Dropbox accounts in a data breach that was initially disclosed by the online cloud storage platform in 2012.
Although the initial announcement failed to reveal the true scale of the data breach, it was in late August when the breach notification service LeakBase obtained
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2016-10-03 11:29:25 | Source Code for IoT botnet responsible for World\'s largest DDoS Attack released Online (lien direct) | With rapidly growing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices, they have become a much more attractive target for cybercriminals.
Just recently we saw a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the France-based hosting provider OVH that reached over one Terabit per second (1 Tbps), which was carried out via a botnet of infected IoT devices.
Now, such attacks are expected
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2016-10-01 10:48:35 | United States set to Hand Over Control of the Internet to ICANN Today (lien direct) | Since the foundation of the Internet, a contract has been handed over to the United States Commerce Department under which the department had given authority to regulate the Internet.
After 47 years, this contract ends tonight at midnight EDT i.e. Saturday, October 1st, 2016.
If you think that the United States owns the Internet, then you're wrong. It doesn't.
Founded in 1998, non-profit
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2016-10-01 02:38:21 | Uh oh, Yahoo! Data Breach May Have Hit Over 1 Billion Users (lien direct) | The massive data breach that Yahoo! confirmed to the world last week is claimed by the company to have been carried out by a "state-sponsored actor" in 2014, which exposed the accounts of at least 500 Million Yahoo users.
But, now it seems that Yahoo has downplayed a mega data breach and triying to hide it's own security blunder.
Recently the information security firm InfoArmor that analyzed
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2016-09-30 00:56:55 | Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty For iOS Zero-Day Exploits (lien direct) | Well, there's some good news for Hackers and Bug hunters, though a terrible news for Apple! Exploit vendor Zerodium has tripled its bug bounty for an Apple's iOS 10 zero-day exploit, offering a maximum payout of $US1.5 Million. Yes, $1,500,000.00 Reward. That's more than seven times what Apple is offering (up to $200,000) for iOS zero-days via its private, invite-only bug bounty program. | |||
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2016-09-29 11:07:31 | 37-Year-Old \'Syrian Electronic Army\' Hacker Pleads Guilty in US court (lien direct) | One of the FBI's Most Wanted Hackers who was arrested in Germany earlier this year has pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in a scheme that hacked computers and targeted the US government, foreign governments, and multiple US media outlets.
Peter Romar, 37, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a federal court in Alexandria to felony charges of conspiring to receive extortion proceeds and to
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2016-09-29 03:59:54 | Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router (lien direct) | If you own a D-Link wireless router, especially DWR-932 B LTE router, you should get rid of it, rather than wait for a firmware upgrade that never lands soon.
D-Link DWR-932B LTE router is allegedly vulnerable to over 20 issues, including backdoor accounts, default credentials, leaky credentials, firmware upgrade vulnerabilities and insecure UPnP (Universal Plug-and-Play) configuration.
If
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2016-09-29 03:50:23 | Improve Your Online Privacy And Security Using NordVPN (lien direct) | Today, most users surf the web unaware of the fact that websites collect their data and track their locations – and if this is not enough, then there are hackers and cyber criminals who can easily steal sensitive data from the ill-equipped.
In short, the simple truth is that you have no or very little privacy when you're online.
So, if you're worried about identity thieves, or ISPs spying on or
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2016-09-28 13:15:47 | Apple Tracks Who You\'re Chatting Using iMessage - and Shares that Data with Police (lien direct) | Doing conversations with your friend on iMessage and thinking that they are safe and out of reach from anyone else other than you and your friend? No, it's not.
End-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your iMessages are secure enough to hide your trace because Apple not only stores a lot of information about your iMessages that could reveal your contacts and location, but even share that
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2016-09-28 02:12:16 | World\'s largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices (lien direct) | Do you know - Your Smart Devices may have inadvertently participated in a record-breaking largest cyber attack that Internet has just witnessed.
If you own a smart device like Internet-connected televisions, cars, refrigerators or thermostats, you might already be part of a botnet of millions of infected devices that was used to launch the biggest DDoS attack known to date, with peaks of over
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2016-09-27 08:47:54 | Facebook releases Osquery Security Tool for Windows (lien direct) | OSquery, an open-source framework created by Facebook that allows organizations to look for potential malware or malicious activity on their networks, was available for Mac OS X and Linux environments until today.
But now the social network has announced that the company has developed a Windows version of its osquery tool, too.
When Facebook engineers want to monitor thousands of Apple Mac
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2016-09-27 08:11:49 | Germany Bans Facebook From Collecting WhatsApp Data (lien direct) | Just last month, the most popular messaging app WhatsApp updated its privacy policy and T&Cs to start sharing its user data with its parent company, and now both the companies are in trouble, at least in Germany and India.
Both Facebook, as well as WhatsApp, have been told to immediately stop collecting and storing data on roughly 35 Million WhatsApp users in Germany.
The Hamburg
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2016-09-27 01:32:12 | Google to Launch \'Andromeda OS\' - An Android-Chrome OS Hybrid (lien direct) | Google's long-rumored Android-Chrome hybrid operating system is expected to debut at the company's upcoming hardware event on October 4.
The company has been working to merge the two OSes for roughly 3 years with a release planned for 2017, but an "early version" to show things off to the world in 2016.
Android + Chrome = Andromeda
The hybrid OS, currently nicknamed '
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2016-09-24 01:37:23 | Hacker Who Helped ISIS to Build \'Hit List\' Of US Military Personnel Jailed for 20 Years (lien direct) | A computer hacker who allegedly helped the terrorist organization ISIS by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison.
Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, from Kosovo was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria, for "providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and accessing a protected computer
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2016-09-24 00:24:59 | Google WiFi Router - Combine Multiple Routers to Boost WiFi Signal (lien direct) | Can you rely on a single loudspeaker in your living room for great sound throughout your home?
Nah!
In the same way, you can not expect a single WiFi router to provide stable range throughout your home.
To solve this issue, Google will soon power your home's wireless internet network with its own-brand new WiFi router called Google WiFi, according to a new report.
Google is
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2016-09-23 11:28:54 | Apple Weakens iOS 10 Backup Encryption; Now Can Be Cracked 2,500 Times Faster (lien direct) | After the iPhone encryption battle between Apple and the FBI, Apple was inspired to work toward making an unhackable future iPhones by implementing stronger security measures even the company can't hack.
Even at that point the company hired one of the key developers of Signal - one of the world's most secure, encrypted messaging apps - its core security team to achieve this goal.
But it
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2016-09-23 05:13:37 | Critical DoS Flaw found in OpenSSL - How It Works (lien direct) | The OpenSSL Foundation has patched over a dozen vulnerabilities in its cryptographic code library, including a high severity bug that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
OpenSSL is a widely used open-source cryptographic library that provides encrypted Internet connections using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) for the majority of websites, as well
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2016-09-23 02:16:34 | Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Were \'Mistakenly\' Left By An Agent On A Remote Server (lien direct) | If you are a hacker, you might have enjoyed the NSA's private zero-day exploits, malware and hacking tools that were leaked last month.
But the question is: How these hacking tools ended up into the hands of hackers?
It has been found that the NSA itself was not directly hacked, but a former NSA employee carelessly left those hacking tools on a remote server three years ago after an
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2016-09-22 23:46:49 | Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by \'State Sponsored\' Hackers (lien direct) | 500 million accounts - that's half a Billion users!
That's how many Yahoo accounts were compromised in a massive data breach dating back to 2014 by what was believed to be a "state sponsored" hacking group.
Over a month ago, a hacker was found to be selling login information related to 200 million Yahoo accounts on the Dark Web, although Yahoo acknowledged that the breach was
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2016-09-22 09:51:53 | iPhone 7 Jailbreak Has Already Been Achieved In Just 24 Hours! (lien direct) | It has only been a few days since the launch of Apple's brand new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, but it appears that the new iPhone has already been jailbroken.
That didn't take long. Right?
Security researcher and well-known hacker Luca Tedesco shared an image of his jailbroken smartphone on his Twitter account to show off the world that the new iPhone 7 has been jailbroken.
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2016-09-22 04:34:48 | Beware - Someone is dropping Malware-infected USB Sticks into People\'s Letterbox (lien direct) | Hey! Wait! Wait! Wait!
Don't plug in that USB stick into your laptop. It could infect your computer with malware and viruses.
Australia's Victoria Police Force has issued a warning regarding unmarked USB flash drives containing harmful malware being dropped inside random people's letterboxes in the Melbourne suburb of Pakenham.
It seems to one of the latest tactics of cyber criminals to
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2016-09-21 06:57:22 | Warning - You Can\'t Install Linux On Microsoft Signature Edition PCs from Lenovo (lien direct) | In past few months, Microsoft opened the source code of a lot of its projects, convincing people that the company loves Linux.
But a new report shows that Microsoft is not really a big supporter of Linux.
Microsoft has banned Linux on some Windows 10 powered Signature Edition PCs, which provides the cleanest Windows experience on the market.
Signature Edition PCs are
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2016-09-21 04:41:09 | This Wi-Fi Router can read your Emotions; Maybe of your Girl\'s too! (lien direct) | Are you good at hiding your feelings?
No issues, your Wi-Fi router may soon be able to tell how you feel, even if you have a good poker face.
A team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a device that can measure human inner emotional states using wireless signals.
Dubbed EQ-Radio, the new device measures heartbeat, and
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2016-09-21 02:19:35 | Photos On Dark Web Reveal Geo-locations Of 229 Drug Dealers - Here\'s How (lien direct) | It's a Fact! No matter how smart the criminals are, they always leave some trace behind.
Two Harvard students have unmasked around 229 drug and weapon dealers with the help of pictures taken by criminals and used in advertisements placed on dark web markets.
Do you know each image contains a range of additional hidden data stored within it that can be a treasure to the investigators fighting
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2016-09-20 05:39:48 | Hackers take Remote Control of Tesla\'s Brakes and Door locks from 12 Miles Away (lien direct) | Next time when you find yourself hooked up behind the wheel, make sure your car is actually in your control.
Hackers can remotely hijack your car and even control its brakes from 12 miles away.
Car hacking is a hot topic.
Today many automobiles companies have been offering vehicles with the majority of functions electronically controlled, from instrument cluster to steering, brakes, and
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2016-09-20 00:55:21 | Cisco finds new Zero-Day Exploit linked to NSA Hackers (lien direct) | Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA's hacking exploits and implants leaked by the group calling itself "The Shadow Brokers."
Last month, the Shadow Brokers published firewall exploits, implants, and hacking tools allegedly stolen from the NSA's Equation Group, which was designed to target
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2016-09-19 03:44:17 | Firefox Browser vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack (lien direct) | A critical vulnerability resides in the fully-patched version of the Mozilla's Firefox browser that could allow well-resourced attackers to launch man-in-the-middle (MITM) impersonation attacks and also affects the Tor anonymity network.
The Tor Project patched the issue in the browser's HTTPS certificate pinning system on Friday with the release of its Tor Browser version 6.0.5, while
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2016-09-16 23:27:40 | British Court rules Hacktivist \'Lauri Love\' can be extradited to USA (lien direct) | British citizen and alleged hacker Lauri Love will be extradited to the United States to face allegations of hacking into United States government computer systems, a UK judge ruled on Friday.
Love, 31, is currently facing up to 99 years in prison for allegedly hacking into the FBI, the US Army, the US Missile Defence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and New
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2016-09-16 12:20:00 | Instead of spending $1.3 million, FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100 (lien direct) | Do you remember the infamous encryption fight between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone 5C belongs to a terrorist?
Yes, you got it right, the same Apple vs. FBI case where the FBI paid almost $1.3 Million to a group of hackers to unlock that iPhone.
However, if the agency had shown some patience to explore more ways to get into that iPhone, then it might have cost them nothing less than
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2016-09-16 03:13:30 | Using \'Signal\' for Encrypted Chats? You Shouldn\'t Skip Its Next Update (lien direct) | Two Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app recommended by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
One of those vulnerabilities could allow potential attackers to add random data to the attachments of encrypted messages sent by Android users, while another bug could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on the targeted
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2016-09-15 06:49:28 | Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor (lien direct) | Do you own an Android Smartphone from Xiaomi, HTC, Samsung, or OnePlus?
If yes, then you must be aware that almost all smartphone manufacturers provide custom ROMs like CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android, MIUI and others with some pre-loaded themes and applications to increase the device's performance.
But do you have any idea about the pre-installed apps and services your manufacturer has
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2016-09-15 00:49:05 | FBI Director - You Should Cover Your Webcam With Tape (lien direct) | Should you put a tape or a sticker over the lens of your laptop's webcam?
Yes, even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey do that.
Covering your laptop's webcam might be a hell cheap and good idea to guard against hackers and intruders who might want to watch your private life and environment through your devices.
In fact, Comey recently came out
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2016-09-14 07:10:27 | Massive Data Breach Exposes 6.6 Million Plaintext Passwords from Ad Company (lien direct) | Another Day, Another Data Breach! And this time, it's worse than any recent data breaches.
Why?
Because the data breach has exposed plaintext passwords, usernames, email addresses, and a large trove of other personal information of more than 6.6 Million ClixSense users.
ClixSense, a website that claims to pay users for viewing advertisements and completing online surveys, is the latest
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2016-09-14 04:40:06 | The Project Zero Contest - Google will Pay you $200,000 to Hack Android OS (lien direct) | Why waiting for researchers and bug hunters to know vulnerabilities in your products, when you can just throw a contest for that.
Google has launched its own Android hacking contest with the first prize winner receiving $200,000 in cash.
That's a Hefty Sum!
The contest is a way to find and destroy dangerous Android vulnerabilities before hackers exploit them in the wild.
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2016-09-14 01:42:34 | Microsoft and Adobe Rolls Out Critical Security Updates - Patch Now! (lien direct) | In BriefYou should not miss this month's Patch Updates, as it brings fixes for critical issues in Adobe Flash Player, iOS, Xcode, the Apple Watch, Windows, Internet Explorer, and the Edge browser.
Adobe has rolled out a critical update to address several issues, most of which are Remote Code Execution flaws, in its widely-used Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS.
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