There are patches for over 70 bugs, and they finally fixed a months-old exploit for MediaTek chipsets, said to affect millions of devices.
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Tag Archives: Cybersecurity
Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
A cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers, he reverse-hacked the Indian call centre to spy on his would-be attackers.
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Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.
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Messaging / Smishing Attacks
Cyber attackers can just as easily trick or fool you in messaging apps as they can in email. Be on the look-out for scams or attacks via apps such as Slack, Skype, WhatsApp or event simple text messaging. The most common clues are tremendous sense of urgency or curioustiy.
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Gotta Patch ‘Em All? Not Necessarily, Experts Say
When it’s impossible to remediate all vulnerabilities in an organization, data can indicate which bugs should be prioritized.
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Avoiding the Perils of Electronic Communications
Twitter, Slack, etc., have become undeniably important for business today, but they can cause a lot of damage. That’s why an agile communications strategy is so important.
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With New SOL4Ce Lab, Purdue U. and DoE Set Sights on National Security
The cooperative research initiative brings together faculty and students to “focus on problems and cutting-edge ways to solve them.”
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Why ‘free’ Wi-Fi isn’t really free
How much data is too much to give away to get online while you’re waiting at the train station? In the airport? A shopping mall?
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NSS Labs Revises Endpoint Security Test Model
New product ratings system comes amid growing shift in the testing market toward more “open and transparent” evaluation of security tools.
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Former Microsoft Software Engineer Convicted of Fraud
The 25-year-old was convicted of 18 charges stemming from illegal access to money stored in online gift cards.
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