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2016-10-21 15:58:41 | Linux kernel bug: DirtyCOW “easyroot†hole and what you need to know (lien direct) | No sooner had we written about long-lived Linux kernel bugs...and along comes an 11-year-old vulnerability that's easy to exploit. |
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2016-10-21 15:52:02 | Millions of AdultFriendFinder user accounts hacked – again (lien direct) | One hacker is claiming to have stolen a database of 73 million users: a whole lot of details for a whole lot of people who'd rather keep that bedroom door closed. |
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2016-10-21 14:33:29 | Online crime leads to losses of £10.9 billion a year (lien direct) | That estimate, based on criminal activity and losses reported to Action Fraud, represents an average of £210 for every UK resident age 16 and up. |
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2016-10-21 13:58:13 | Why you should be cautious of emails from friends or colleagues (lien direct) | You've probably been warned about the risks of trusting emails from people you don't know, but what about emails from your friends, colleagues, long-standing doctor or smart-suited solicitor? |
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2016-10-21 10:44:50 | “Anonymous†Yik Yak users can be tracked down, say researchers (lien direct) | Using spoofed GPS coordinates, localization attacks from Shanghai pinpointed the dorms from which yaks were sent with 100% accuracy. |
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2016-10-20 16:54:54 | Facial recognition technology is taking over US, says privacy group (lien direct) | Is the growing use of facial recognition systems by US law enforcement getting out of hand? |
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2016-10-20 16:47:46 | Poor and/or reused passwords lead to Chinese spam flood on iMessage (lien direct) | Affected Apple users, you're not alone! Many are being hit. It's yet another good reason to pick strong, **unique** passwords.  |
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2016-10-20 12:48:02 | Ancalog – the document exploit tool that makes cybercrime easy (lien direct) | SophosLabs presents a fascinating new paper explaining how malware tools like Ancalog help non-techie crooks get straight into cybercrime... |
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2016-10-20 08:37:04 | Snoops can tell what you type while you Skype, researchers find (lien direct) | Researchers developed an acoustic eavesdropping attack scenario using VoIP, hitting an accuracy rate of up to 91.7%.  |
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2016-10-19 16:55:27 | Twitter bots work overtime for Trump and Clinton in US presidential race (lien direct) | The great thing about computer bots is they never stop - that's also their biggest weakness. |
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2016-10-19 16:51:12 | Linux kernel bugs: we add them in and then take years to get them out (lien direct) | A Google security researcher measured how long kernel bugs hang around in Linux after they've been introduced. |
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2016-10-19 16:40:15 | Facebook joins the EU-US Privacy Shield and Shrems takes aim again… (lien direct) | Facebook joins Google and Apple in adopting the EU-US Privacy Shield, the new and improved Safe Harbor. |
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2016-10-19 16:24:29 | Oracle puts out 253 fixes and a request to please apply patches NOW! (lien direct) | One risk: complete, easily attained compromise via HTTP. Another is ignoring these updates: Oracle's seeing attacks on already fixed stuff! |
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2016-10-19 11:44:37 | 3 things you might not realize are cybercrimes (lien direct) | Did you realize that guessing somebody's password (or, at least, using it to access an account without permission) is a crime? |
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2016-10-19 10:34:46 | Republican site rigged with credit card skimmer malware for 6 months (lien direct) | Have you picked up a #NeverHillary sticker lately? If so, your card details may well have been whisked away to be sold on the black market. |
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2016-10-19 10:05:23 | PCI warns new EU data protection regulation could result in £122 billion in fines (lien direct) | The new EU General Data Protection Regulation could catch firms off guard and bring heavy fines for non-compliance. |
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2016-10-18 16:56:11 | Data-stealing CryPy ransomware raises the spectre of variable pricing for files (lien direct) | The CryPy ransomware steals a list of filenames, and uses a unique encryption key for each one - which makes variable file pricing possible. |
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2016-10-18 16:50:28 | Facebook privacy hoax chain letter rises from the grave: AGAIN! (lien direct) | Replete with convincing legalese! ... again! |
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2016-10-18 16:21:55 | Is it worth reporting ransomware? (lien direct) | Answer: yes. Police forces badly need more people to tell them about attacks. |
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2016-10-18 15:49:56 | Tech support scammers preying on young Americans, study finds (lien direct) | A shocking one in five young Americans are fooled by bogus technical support scams. |
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2016-10-18 15:06:40 | Simple mistake exposes businessman\'s secret Dark Web drug store (lien direct) | It doesn't matter how sophisticated your software is, users will always find a way to fail you. |
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2016-10-18 14:57:42 | Halfway there! Firefox users now visit over 50% of pages via HTTPS (lien direct) | Mozilla telemetry shows sites using HTTPS for more secure browsing now outnumber plain old HTTP. |
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2016-10-18 10:55:51 | Feds got search warrant demanding anyone\'s fingerprints to open phones (lien direct) | Legal experts call it an unprecedented demand. |
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2016-10-17 16:23:34 | Netflix finds users\' passwords floating around online: change yours now! (lien direct) | You don't want to be footing the bill for some crook's film-watching! It's just one of many dangers of password reuse. |
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2016-10-17 08:45:43 | $5 million dollars paid as Facebook\'s bug bounty program turns 5 (lien direct) | Since its birth, Facebook's pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered 900 bugs and paid out over $5,000,000.  |
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2016-10-14 16:50:01 | Is your router taking part in DDoS attacks right under your nose? (lien direct) | Akamai calls this one "SSHowDowN", which is shorthand for "DON'T SET DEFAULT PASSWORDS BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE." |
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2016-10-14 15:16:13 | Doh! Government inadvertently reveals hacker\'s private info (lien direct) | When you're prosecuting a hacker for exposing private information to the world, you really shouldn't do the same thing yourself! |
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2016-10-14 14:57:56 | A user\'s foolproof guide to choosing terrible passwords (lien direct) | Good password selection is HARD. And this won't help... |
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2016-10-14 10:19:07 | Microsoft\'s October 2016 patch rollup: 10 bulletins, 4 zero-days (lien direct) | Does talk of 'zero days' distract administrators from the job in hand? |
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2016-10-13 17:16:28 | Clinton campaign official\'s Twitter account hijacked: “I\'ve switched teams†(lien direct) | The top Clinton campaign official has had a brand new Outlook account broken into and his Twitter account hijacked. Blame password reuse! |
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2016-10-13 15:58:43 | Popular Bitcoin site hit by DNS attack, loses control of own website (lien direct) | Don't be afraid to trade a little bit of inconvenience for an awful lot of extra security! |
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2016-10-13 10:58:28 | Facebook, Twitter, Instagram cut off surveillance tool used to track protesters (lien direct) | The app, Geofeedia, has been using data streams from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to monitor protests. |
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2016-10-13 10:33:36 | Lizard Squad, PoodleCorp members arrested in DDoS-for-hire bust (lien direct) | For $20/month, one of the services, PhoneBomber, would call a victim once an hour for a month with streams of expletive-sprinkled threats.  |
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2016-10-12 15:56:40 | Twitter bot baits bullies into meaningless and futile arguments (lien direct) | Her arguments are meaningless and never end (so she fits right in on Twitter.) |
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2016-10-12 15:19:37 | Phisher arrested for stealing Bitcoins from dark web users (lien direct) | Even the shadowy dark web is no longer safe from the ravages of cybercrime it seems. |
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2016-10-12 14:28:32 | CCTV that lets the crooks watch you, not the other way around… (lien direct) | The irony is obvious: a security hole in an internet-enabled CCTV system turns the whole concept of surveillance on its head. |
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2016-10-11 16:51:39 | Amazon finds cache of reused passwords: change yours now! (lien direct) | Amazon says that during "routine monitoring," it stumbled on a set of customers' email and password sets posted in a non-Amazon spot online. |
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2016-10-11 15:38:38 | $15 million fake IRS call center busted by police (lien direct) | Police in India located three office buildings packed with hundreds of people posing as IRS officials. |
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2016-10-11 13:03:40 | The EU\'s latest idea to secure the Internet of Things? Sticky labels (lien direct) | When the going gets tough, the tough form a committee |
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2016-10-11 12:55:57 | Yahoo won\'t let you forward your emails to another service – but why? (lien direct) | Yahoo has "temporarily disabled" its mail forwarding. Security review to encourage staying, or lock-in pressure to discourage leaving? |
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2016-10-11 11:05:27 | Yahoo wants to spy on you through advertising billboards (lien direct) | Yahoo has filed a patent for a billboard that would spy on the people watching it in a bid to tailor the ads that it shows.  |
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2016-10-10 16:05:10 | Cyberbullies could be jailed in the UK for ruining people\'s lives (lien direct) | According to new guidance for prosecutors, being “grossly abusive†to people will lead to the same prosecution as if it were done offline.  |
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2016-10-10 15:45:48 | Turkey blocks cloud sites following huge data dump of stolen email (lien direct) | Seems as though a Turkish politician at the heart of a politically-motivated data leak used the same password everywhere...  |
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2016-10-10 11:32:22 | Is it really a good idea to scam the scammers? (lien direct) | When scammers come calling, the temptation is to try and turn the tables on them. But is it a good idea?  |
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2016-10-10 11:06:10 | 12-year-old gets €100,000 Google bill after confusing AdWords and AdSense (lien direct) | Those advertising service sound-alikes should be renamed to WeChargeYouBigBucks and WePayYouLittleBit.  |
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2016-10-10 10:26:48 | Live from the Virus Bulletin 2016 conference [Chet Chat Podcast 254] (lien direct) | Here's the latest Chet Chat security podcast - enjoy! |
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2016-10-07 16:53:04 | \'Security fatigue\' leading computer users to more or less just give up (lien direct) | Either we all need naps, or security has to be made simpler for users, because many of us are exhausted by alert fatigue.  |
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2016-10-07 16:47:45 | Android battles to fix the holes where the rain gets in (lien direct) | Patching Android security holes keeps getting more complex - and expensive |
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2016-10-07 10:13:11 | Islamic State suspect charged with hiding terrorist data in cufflink (lien direct) | A 33-year-old Cardiff man has been charged with training Islamic State terrorists on how to use encryption programs and with hiding a computer program on a USB drive disguised as a cufflink. |
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2016-10-06 22:59:16 | Odin ransomware takes over from Zepto and Locky (lien direct) | First it was Locky, then it morphed into Zepto, and now it's become Odin. |
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