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- February 5, 2019
The advent of mass working from home has made many people more aware of the security risks of sending sensitive information via the internet. The best we can do at the moment is make it difficult to intercept and hack your messages – but we can’t make it impossible. What we need is a new
READ MOREBlack Hat While China is the bête noire du jour of the US government, Russia is the master of spreading disinformation, fostering conflict, and derailing discourse online, the Black Hat security conference was told today. At her Thursday keynote, Stanford Internet Observatory’s research manager Renee DiResta explained how Russian military intelligence – the GRU –
READ MOREFacebook won a significant legal victory on Thursday when the judge hearing the lawsuit against Israeli spyware maker NSO Group declined to dismiss the case – and allowed the crucial discovery process to move forward. Last October, Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary sued NSO Group, and its Q Cyber Technologies affiliate, in the Northern District
READ MOREWelcome to yet another El Reg security roundup. Off we go. OpenBSD a little too true to its name The freely available OpenBSD operating system is the host of some annoying security holes. Researchers at Qualys found and reported authentication bypass flaws that can be exploited locally, and potentially remotely, to log into services without
READ MORESpy versus Spy, the classic comic strip from MAD Chinese state-linked hacking group APT3 acquired access to US National Security Agency (NSA) malware after observing the exploit being used in the wild. And this occurred well before the ‘Shadow Brokers’ leaks of NSA malware in 2016 and 2017. According to a new analysis by security
READ MORESecurity vulnerabilities in Apple iPhones allowed hackers to steal users’ messages and photos from the device Google’s Project Zero team claims to have uncovered several hacked websites found to be spreading malware to Apple iPhones for at least two years. According to Google, the websites exploited a series… [ad_2] Source link
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