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5 years ago+11 12 1WhatsApp Zero-Day let NSO Spyware Pwn Phones
A buffer-overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp is being exploited by NSO Group to remotely take over victims’ iOS and Android devices.
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5 years ago+15 15 0Russia's ‘Fake News’ Swirls in U.S. and Europe
Here come more stories of Russia's interference in elections, Moscow's attempts to sow discord and Putin's conspiracy-theory spreading.
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5 years ago+24 25 1Photo App Pivots to Violating Its Users' Privacy
Ever AI is violating user privacy by using millions of photos to train an AI facial-recognition product aimed at enterprises and the military. On the face of it, this isn’t a good look for Ever.
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5 years ago+12 12 0China eats NSA's lunch, uses its zero-days for a year
Hobbs, Kerckhoffs and Shannon were right: Security by obscurity is no security at all. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been making fools of the US National Security Agency. It turns out that Shadow Brokers weren’t the first to steal the NSA’s s ...
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5 years ago+16 17 1Git Code Repos Held to Ransom - Thousands Hacked
Many private Git repositories are at risk of being leaked to the public. Anonymous hackers have wiped victims’ code and are demanding Bitcoin. Or else? Or else they’ll open-source it for you. And then everyone will be able to see your soopah-sekrit s ...
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5 years ago+14 15 1Dell Hell Gets Hotter via Bad Bug in Every PC, Laptop - Security Boulevard
Every Dell endpoint running Windows has a nasty remote-code execution vulnerability. Amazingly, Dell figured it would be great to allow a web page to take full control of a PC—admin privileges and all.
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5 years ago+18 18 0 x 1Huge US data leak from Microsoft cloud; 65% of households at risk
Yet another cloud database with no #security. And this one’s enormous. This time, Microsoft was discovered hosting an 80 million-row, open database of US adults aged over 40. We still don’t know who owns the data, but some speculate shadow IT is to b ...