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2016-12-12 14:35:04 | Like Jessica Alba? Don\'t click Facebook links promising nude photos of her – or anyone else (lien direct) | It's an old scam that never goes away: this latest version is a rogue Chrome plugin that promises nude videos of Alba and other celebrities but leaves your device hobbled  |
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2016-12-12 11:26:42 | Give the gift of a social engineering demo this Christmas (lien direct) | How's this for a nice Christmas present: their jaw, scraped off the floor and handed back.  |
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2016-12-12 10:54:29 | Monday review – the hot 27 stories of the week (lien direct) | From guessing credit card security codes and double crossing Goldeneye ransomware to the sysadmin jailed for crashing ex-employer's network! |
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2016-12-09 18:57:51 | How one man could have set loose a Yahoo Mail virus (lien direct) | Last year, Jouko Pynnönen scored $10k from Yahoo for helping it head off the risk of a Yahoo-wide email virus. This year... same again. |
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2016-12-09 18:08:35 | News in brief: Mounties drop bodycam plans; vibrator firm to settle lawsuit; Samsung to brick Note 7s (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-09 17:49:40 | Admin spied on Expedia executive emails to make share killing (lien direct) | Former staffer to pay $375,000 in restitution and faces sentencing in February |
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2016-12-09 16:50:31 | Windows XP \'still widespread\' among healthcare providers (lien direct) | Using XP a security risk and could also breach HIPAA, warn experts |
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2016-12-09 10:25:50 | Did Russia hack the US election? Democrats want an investigation (lien direct) | The 2016 US presidential election looks set to become the most investigated of modern times. Everything seems to be up for a second look. Green Party nominee Jill Stein has crowdfunded recounts of voting in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all of which recorded narrow wins for Donald Trump. How effective that campaign to force recounts […] |
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2016-12-08 23:49:46 | Goldeneye ransomware: the resumé that scrambles your computer twice (lien direct) | Scrambling your files isn't enough for Goldeneye - once it's ransomed your data it scrambles Windows as well so you have to pay to reboot. |
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2016-12-08 18:14:36 | News in brief: fake news move; \'massive\' data breach; spook welcomes Snooper\'s charter (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news |
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2016-12-08 16:33:37 | If you\'ve got a Sony IP camera, update its firmware now (lien direct) | Sony closes backdoors in IPELA security cameras - but why were they open in the first place?  |
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2016-12-08 14:58:18 | Making calls on the plane? Spies may have your number (lien direct) | Snowden papers reveal that NSA and GCHQ have been trying to intercept calls made on flights for more than a decade |
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2016-12-08 13:24:04 | Celebrity hacker gets double the recommended jail time (lien direct) | Victim Naturi Naughton tells court she felt 'violated and out of control' by the hacking  |
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2016-12-08 11:11:33 | Augmented reality start-up brings facial recognition to phones (lien direct) | Privacy boundaries tested as start-up promises humans will only be added to database with their consent - apart from the celebs it added without their consent, that is |
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2016-12-07 18:34:25 | News in brief: DirtyCOW patched for Android; naked lack of security; South Korea hacked (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-07 16:17:01 | Charities hit with fines for sharing donors\' data without consent (lien direct) | Animal and heart charities built up pictures of donors without their knowledge to target them for cash |
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2016-12-07 14:29:34 | Flaw spotted in North Korea\'s Red Star operating system (lien direct) | Flaw in bundled browser could give an attacker complete control over a user's PC |
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2016-12-07 13:37:15 | Nintendo targets 3DS vulnerabilities in new bug bounty (lien direct) | Bug bounty program focuses on hardware exploits |
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2016-12-06 18:34:09 | News in brief: smart toys \'threaten kids\' security\'; Samsung battery teardown; HP turns off Telnet (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-06 16:53:30 | Putin moves to step up Russia\'s cyberdefenses (lien direct) | Attacks against major Russian banking sites ratcheted up fear over cyberespionage |
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2016-12-06 16:18:30 | Daily Motion video sharing service named in breach claim of 80M accounts (lien direct) | Popular video sharing service Dail Motion has been named in a data breach claim involving 80M accounts and about 20M password hashes. |
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2016-12-06 15:13:49 | \'Rich irony\' as Facebook blocks extension to highlight fake news (lien direct) | A story about users mistaking it for a Facebook extension was flagged as fake news: 'Meta', said the developer |
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2016-12-06 14:35:55 | Lock suspect in stolen car to bust him? There\'s an app for that… (lien direct) | The smileworthy technology story of the week has a car thief suspect remotely locked inside a stolen car. Except we're calling it busted. |
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2016-12-06 13:14:41 | Rogue admin jailed after taking down former employer\'s network (lien direct) | Former employee's response to being fired is a lesson for other companies about the power of their sysadmins |
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2016-12-06 12:42:39 | Are you human or a bot? Google\'s invisible reCAPTCHA will decide (lien direct) | Google's invisible reCAPTCHA will decide based on tracking your moves and clicks if you're a human or a bot |
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2016-12-05 18:41:08 | How to guess credit card security codes (lien direct) | That "short code" on the back of your credit card does make things harder for cybercrooks - but perhaps not that much harder. |
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2016-12-05 17:16:39 | News in brief: porn database hacked; Obama call to Trump; MPs move on Snooper\'s Charter (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-05 16:51:43 | Facebook reportedly looking at curating news (again) (lien direct) | The latest fake-news wrinkle: Insiders say it will hand-pick news from favored media partners, including Snapchat, in an upcoming feature called Collections.  |
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2016-12-05 14:05:27 | Website leaves 43,000 sensitive medical records exposed (lien direct) | Troy Hunt struggles to get a response from affected company |
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2016-12-05 12:18:13 | Apple set to deploy drones to boost Maps accuracy (lien direct) | It reportedly has FAA go-ahead to fly commercial drones. Indoor mapping is also in the works, but no worries: it's not peeping-Tom time. |
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2016-12-02 18:53:25 | \'Avalanche\' botnet takes a tumble after Europol cyber-bust (lien direct) | Multi-agency global operation takes down longstanding cybercrime platform |
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2016-12-02 17:34:36 | New iOS lockscreen bypass renders Activation Lock useless (lien direct) | Security researchers have found a new bug that allows bypassing the Activation Lock feature. |
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2016-12-02 16:44:40 | News in brief: meals on robot wheels; Mirai blamed for new attacks; police bypass iPhone encryption (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-02 12:10:34 | Would Facebook or Twitter dare to ban Trump? [poll] (lien direct) | Facebook employees have already reportedly pushed to have his posts about banning Muslims from entering the country deemed hate speech. |
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2016-12-01 18:52:36 | Cut through the FUD in online security tips (lien direct) | Security as you're surfing is always a balance between risk and reward |
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2016-12-01 17:52:10 | News in brief: Pi bakes in security; net neutrality fears; Rule 41 delay fails (lien direct) | Your daily round up of what else is in the news |
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2016-12-01 15:48:17 | Firefox and Tor users update now: 0-day exploit in the wild (lien direct) | Firefox and Tor just received a patch to fix a 0-day exploit that is being used in the wild to strip away your anonymity. |
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2016-12-01 13:27:16 | Honest but uncomplimentary reviews protected as Congress outlaws contract gag clauses (lien direct) | Lying is still illegal, mind you: it was never protected speech. Thus, the new Consumer Review Freedom Act doesn't protect fake reviews. |
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2016-12-01 12:36:08 | Uber now collecting location data even after you leave a driver\'s car (lien direct) | ...it's also slurping your location data in the background when you're not even using the app. As in, "always." Here's how to opt out.  |
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2016-11-30 18:32:58 | Bypassing BitLocker during an upgrade (lien direct) | If your timing's right, you can drop into a recovery shell while your C: drive is unlocked...so keep an eye on your PC when you update. |
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2016-11-30 18:25:35 | Facebook users want to continue posting from beyond the grave (lien direct) | What should happen to your online life after your death?  |
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2016-11-30 18:06:12 | News in brief: leniency urged for Snowden; crowdsourced suggestions for Facebook; Berners-Lee slams \'Snoopers\' Charter\' (lien direct) | Your daily round up of what else is in the news |
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2016-11-30 16:59:17 | Hackers reuse passwords to access 26,500 National Lottery accounts (lien direct) | If you've been affected - and even if you haven't - now is a good time to stop re-using passwords |
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2016-11-30 14:09:54 | America wonders what path Trump will tread on cybersecurity (lien direct) | Industry professionals say the president-elect's penchant for the unpredictable could be bad - or good - for Internet security |
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2016-11-30 11:37:35 | IoT camera turned into a zombie in under two minutes (lien direct) | Even a security professional couldn't stop his new IoT camera being turned into a zombie member of the Mirai botnet |
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2016-11-29 18:36:36 | News in brief: Muni hacker is hacked; Facebook warned over data sharing; spy agency releases data tool (lien direct) | Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news |
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2016-11-29 18:29:27 | Dismay as \'snooper\'s charter\' finally becomes law (lien direct) | Critics fear a surveillance state while tech firms question new law's unintended effects |
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2016-11-29 15:09:43 | Deutsche Telekom outage: Mirai botnet goes double-rogue (lien direct) | Silver lining! Close to 1 in 20 Deutsche Telekom customers avoided botnet infection because their routers got knocked offline instead. |
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2016-11-29 13:56:22 | The Tor Phone prototype: a truly private smartphone? (lien direct) | Security-focused Android fork only available for a few of Google's Nexus and Pixel phones - for now |
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2016-11-29 11:34:40 | When are you going to die? Ubisoft tool uses Facebook data to tell you (lien direct) | My expiration date: 84; 95 if I correct a whole lot of inaccuracies that I assume are what insurance companies are able to find on Facebook. |
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