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Facebook paying for exploit to catch a predator, voting software security under the microscope… • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 14, 2020
Roundup We all made it through another week – and here’s a treat: another Register security roundup. OmniBallot takes heat in uni security assessment The eggheads at MIT produced a report [PDF] detailing their probing of OmniBallot, a web-based ballot-issuing and voting system made by Democracy Live for US state elections – and warned the
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A new Firefox exploit locks you out of your browser 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- November 6, 2019
Earlier in the week, a bug was reported for Firefox and it’s already been actively exploited by scammers. The message suggests that victims are using a pirated copy of Windows and that ‘the Windows registry key is illegal’. Victims are then told to contact Windows support by calling a US-based 1-888 number that, of course,
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BlackBerry Cylance to rush out a fix for anti-virus bypass exploit 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 20, 2019
A lot of developers at BlackBerry Cylance will be working through the weekend to provide a fix BlackBerry Cylance has acknowledged the threat posed by an exploit to its anti-virus software, which supposedly uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential threats, and has pledged to rush-out a fix. However, users will have to wait until
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Researcher demos macOS Mojave keychain exploit 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 7, 2019
A security researcher has created an application which is capable of capturing supposedly-protected credentials from the keychain system in Apple’s macOS Mojave – and is refusing to tell Apple the details unless it launches a bug bounty programme. Apple was late to the bug bounty concept, where researchers are offered financial incentives for disclosing discovered
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