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Music Records and Movie Studios Shouldn't Be Allowed to Cut off Your Internet

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a dire warning, bringing public attention to a legal case that may allow copyright holders such as music labels and movie studios the power to cut off a user's Internet connection in case they suspect he may be breaking copyright laws. [...]
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Old Skype for Mac API Doubles as a Backdoor

A soon-to-be-deprecated API included with Skype for Mac contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass authentication procedures and query for user data or interact with a local Skype installation. [...]
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Google Spins Off Its Self-Driving Cars Division Into New Company Called Waymo

Google has made important changes to its corporate structure today, when it spun off its self-driving cars unit as a separate company called Waymo, which will now be part of the Alphabet group, a parent company that manages a multitude of other Google-based ventures, such as Calico, DeepMind, Nest Labs, and more. [...]
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Microsoft's December 2016 Patch Tuesday fixes Zero Day disclosed by Google

Today is the December 2016 Microsoft Patch Tuesday and we have twelve security updates being released by Microsoft. Of these twelve updates, six of them are rated as Critical as they allow remote code execution on the affected computer.  [...]
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Adobe updates numerous Applications to resolve 30 Security Vulnerabilities

Adobe released security updates for Adobe Animate, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Experience Manager Forms, Adobe DNG Converter, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Adobe Adobe Digital Editions, and Adobe Robohelp. ColdFusion Builder, InDesign, Manager, that resolve 30 security vulnerabilities. [...]
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Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser

Malicious ads are serving exploit code to infect routers, instead of browsers, in order to insert ads in every site users are visiting. Discovered by security researchers from US security firm Proofpoint, this malvertising campaign is powered by a new exploit kit called DNSChanger EK. [...]
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Vulnerability in Joomla Allows Attackers to Reset Passwords and Take Over Sites

The Joomla Project released version 3.6.5 of the Joomla CMS that addresses three security bugs, of which one can allow attackers to take over vulnerable sites. If this wasn't bad enough, this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-9838, affects all Joomla versions released in the past five years. [...]
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Cerber Ransomware Spreads via Fake Credit Card Email Reports

Just in time for the Christmas holiday shopping spree, the group behind the Cerber ransomware has launched a spam campaign that uses fake credit card reports to trick users into opening a Word file that under certain circumstances will download and install the deadly Cerber ransomware. [...]
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Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Issue That Knocked People off the Internet

Microsft has released KB3206632, a Windows update that fixes an issue introduced in an earlier update that crashed the CDPSVC service and prevented some users from receiving IP address information via the DCHP protocol, used by both home and enterprise-grade routers to connect users to the Internet. [...]
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No More Ransom Project Expands with 34 New Partners, 32 New Free Decryption Tools

The "No More Ransom" project, set up in July by Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Europol, and the Dutch National police to help victims of ransomware infections, has expanded today with 34 new partners, and 32 new decryptors that can help ransomware victims unlock their files for free. [...]