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Twitter Bug That Enables Third-party apps to get Unauthorized Access to User’s Direct Messages
Twitter fixed a bug that allows a third-party app to read the user message without user consent. The bug resides in the apps that uses PIN …
South Korea to develop AI to prevent voice phishing
South Korea’s finance watch dog, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), together with SK Telecom, will develop AI to prevent voice …
Innovation agenda’s intangible asset depreciation binned as Canberra saves AU$425m
The proposed ability for companies to be able to self-assess the effective life of certain intangible depreciating assets has been dropped, …
US ballistic missile systems have very poor cyber-security
No data encryption, no antivirus programs, no multifactor authentication mechanisms, and 28-year-old unpatched vulnerabilities are just …
Dell Boomi Delivers Security, Usability and Flexibility With Latest Release
Dell Boomi™ (Boomi), the leading enterprise transformation provider of cloud integration and workflow automation to build The Connected …
Week in review: Hardware Trojans, Office 365 compromise prevention, getting the most out of pentesting
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Deception …
3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone
There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics, corneas, and firearms — even an Olympic-standard …
Thousands of Jenkins servers will let anonymous users become admins
Thousands, if not more, Jenkins servers are vulnerable to data theft, takeover, and cryptocurrency mining attacks. This is because hackers …
List of Top 25 Worst Passwords of 2018 Based On 5 Million Leaked Passwords
Passwords are the strings of cards used to verify the identity of the user, when the passwords are extracted they are free simple and …
Hackers Using Weaponized Memes to Communicate with Malware for Malicious Operations
Researchers recently observed that cyber criminals using a weaponized memes in order to communicate with malware for various malicious …
Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite potentially affects billions of apps
Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team discovered the Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite database software that exposes billions of …
Hacker Performs Awesome Tesla Model 3 Ubuntu Linux Infotainment System Mod
There’s a lot to like about Tesla’s Model 3, but as with most things with prepackaged entertainment (or infotainment) systems, even this …
‘Bomb threat’ scammers are now threatening to throw acid on victims
Thursday’s massive spam campaign that sent bomb threats to hundreds of thousands of users across the US and Canada, and caused evacuations …
A New Facebook Bug May have been Exposed 6.8 Million Users Private Photos
Facebook revealed a new photo API bug that may have been affected by nearly 68 million users and 1,500 apps built by 876 developers. …
Taylor Swift’s Facial Recognition, the Year’s Worst Passwords, and More Security News This Week
you were going to make it out of 2018 without a couple more data slip-ups, think again! Two incidents bookended the …
Brazil bested by hackers, Virgin plugs hub bugs, and France surrenders… records
It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy …
Open Source Firewalls: The Best in the Business
Firewalls form a vital part of the network security system, isolating the network from all kinds of intrusions. This article discusses some …
How to Track Your Cryptocurrency Trades and Portfolio
People who are used to trading in Bitcoin and Ethereum among other cryptocurrencies already know the lucrative opportunities that are …
Critical SQLite Bug Affected all Modern Operating Systems and Software
This SQLite bug can be triggered, if the victim explores a simple webpage in the browser that uses SQLite and the Web SQL API. “According …
Facebook bug exposed private photos of 6.8M users to third-party developers
The breach took place from September 13 to September 25, 2018, which means for 12 days straight some developers could view your personal …
Critical SQLite Flaw Leaves Millions of Apps Vulnerable to Hackers
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of …
Hackers bypassed Gmail & Yahoo’s 2FA to target US officials
Private emails of US sanctions officials and nuclear scientists have been breached by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. As per the data …
‘Bomb threat’ scammers linked to earlier sextortion campaign
Yesterday’s ‘bomb scare’ spam campaign may have been a follow-up to another infamous email extortion effort. Researchers with Cisco’s Talos …
SQLite bug impacts thousands of apps, including all Chromium-based browsers
A security vulnerability in the massively popular SQLite database engine puts thousands of desktop and mobile applications at risk. More …
Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children’s charity
A group of criminal asswipes have managed to steal $1m from the Save the Children Foundation. The global children’s health charity said in …
Facebook And Google Reviews System For Business 1.0 CSRF
Facebook And Google Reviews System For Business version 1.0 suffers from a cross site request forgery …
Brazilian IT firm Tivit suffers data leak
Brazil-based IT services and business process outsourcing provider Tivit has had data from many of its large customers leaked online. …
Mitigating Identity Deception
The fraudsters have more tools and information than ever at their disposal to pull off socially engineered schemes. But how can the victims …
US Tech Firm Cloudflare Accused of Providing Cybersecurity Services to Foreign Terrorist Groups
Leading American tech firm Cloudflare has been accused of providing cybersecurity services to at least seven designated foreign terrorist …
Email Bomb Threats Follow Sextortion Playbook
Yesterday’s wave of email bomb threats appear to be an evolution of tactics by the same groups that earlier tried “sextortion” and personal …
‘Donald’ debuts at No. 23 on worst passwords of 2018 list
Almost 10 percent of people on the interwebs used at least one of the 25 worst passwords on SplashData’s annual list, which was released …
Bing recommends piracy tutorial when searching for Office 2019
Microsoft is sending users who search for Office 2019 download links via its Bing search engine to a website that teaches them the basics …
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Facebook apologizes for bug leaking private photos
Facebook on Friday apologized for a bug that may have exposed exposed private photos to third-party apps for the 12 day period from …
Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe
Destructive malware has been employed by adversaries for years. Usually such attacks are carefully targeted and can be motivated by …
Iranian Hackers Target Nuclear Experts, US Officials
Iranian cyberattackers are stepping up their game after US President Donald Trump re-enforced severe economic sanctions on the country last …
Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Instantly Upgrade Your Arduino Project Design
Arduinos are great for low-power standalone jobs that simply read inputs, do a few calculations then set some outputs. They have a mix of …