Hacker Streaming PewDiePie Videos on Exposed Chromecast Devices

A new hacking campaign is underway that is targeting Chromecast adapters, Smart TVs, and Google Home in order to play a YouTube video promoting PewDiePie's channel. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-streaming-pewdiepie-videos-on-exposed-chromecast-devices/

Windows 10 Dark Mode in Chrome Delayed by Missing Laptop?

Yesterday, we reported that support for Windows 10 Dark mode is coming to Google Chrome. It turns, out that Windows 10 Dark Mode support might have come sooner if it wasn't for a missing laptop. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/windows-10-dark-mode-in-chrome-delayed-by-missing-laptop/

Microsoft Patents Silent Voice Command Input Method

Redmond's new patent offers a solution to the issue of users not willing to disturb other people using voice commands with virtual assistants such as Cortana [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-patents-silent-voice-command-input-method/

Irish Rail Operator Gets Ransom Note on Its Website

The website of Luas, the tram rail system operator in Dublin, Ireland, has been taken offline today after someone replaced its content with a ransom note demanding one bitcoin not to publish customer data. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/irish-rail-operator-gets-ransom-note-on-its-website/

Google's New Fuchsia OS to Support Android Apps

According to Android's Open Source Project website, Google's new OS will use a custom Android Runtime version to run Android apps [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/googles-new-fuchsia-os-to-support-android-apps/

Microsoft's Bali Data Bank to Help Users Manage Their Data

The Microsoft Research incubation project allows users to view, manage, share, and monetize the data Microsoft collects about them [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-bali-data-bank-to-help-users-manage-their-data/

Chromecast Hacker Calls it Quits After Hearing FBI Is Looking Into Him

The hacker known as TheHackerGiraffe has been promoting PewDiePie's YouTube channel through unwanted Internet-connected printer jobs and Chromecast hacks. In an audio Periscope recording, the hacker calls it quits after being told that the FBI may be building a case against him. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chromecast-hacker-calls-it-quits-after-hearing-fbi-is-looking-into-him/

Apple App Store Earns $1.22B During Holidays, But Stock Still Struggles

Despite announcing a record-breaking App Store 2018 holiday week, Apple's stock took a 38% nosedive since October [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-app-store-earns-122b-during-holidays-but-stock-still-struggles/

Python 3.7 Is Now Available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10

Last month the Python Software Foundation quietly published Python 3.7 in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 devices. The Microsoft Store version of Python 3.7 is a simplified installer for running scripts and packages. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/python-37-is-now-available-in-the-microsoft-store-for-windows-10/

Adobe Acrobat and Reader Security Updates Released for Critical Bugs

Today, Adobe released security bulletin APSB19-02 that describes two security updates for critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. In these updates only two vulnerabilities were fixed, but they are classified as Critical because they allow privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-acrobat-and-reader-security-updates-released-for-critical-bugs/

Android Messages Can Now Detect and Block Spam

Google rolled out its opt-out automated spam protection feature to help Android users fight spam messages [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/android-messages-can-now-detect-and-block-spam/

Microsoft Edge for iOS Beta Brings Picture-in-Picture and MSN Kids News Feed

Microsoft Edge version 42.9.0 comes with Picture-in-Picture mode which allows users to pop a video out from a webpage such as YouTube and watch the content on a floating window which apparently hovers above the other Edge tabs. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-edge-for-ios-beta-brings-picture-in-picture-and-msn-kids-news-feed/

New Android Malware Combines Info-Stealing and Phishing Features

Android malware that combines info/data-stealing and phishing capabilities lurked in Google Play using the guise of legitimate looking apps; one of them was installed at least 100,000 times. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-malware-combines-info-stealing-and-phishing-features/

Windows 10 Insider Build 18309 Released With More Password-less Sign-in Options

Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18309 (19H1) to insiders in the Fast ring. This build primarily focuses on bringing the password-less sign-in options they were testing with Windows 10 Home users to all other Windows 10 Insider versions.  [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-insider-build-18309-released-with-more-password-less-sign-in-options/

New Phishing Tactic Uses Custom Web Fonts to Prevent Detection

Threat actors in the phishing business have adopted a new technique to obfuscate the source code for the forged page by using a custom web font to implement a substitution cipher that looks like plaintext. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-phishing-tactic-uses-custom-web-fonts-to-prevent-detection/

Private Data, Official Docs of Hundreds of German Politicians Leaking for at Least a Month

Germany's Cyber Defense Center is on high alert as personal information and official documents of hundreds of German politicians, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier included, have been leaking online since at least early December 2018. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/private-data-official-docs-of-hundreds-of-german-politicians-leaking-for-at-least-a-month/

Apple Removes iPhone 7 and 8 From German Stores

The iPhone sales ban follows a German court decision from December imposing a preliminary injunction on these two models [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-removes-iphone-7-and-8-from-german-stores/

Microsoft Released the January 2019 Non-Security Office Updates

This update release fixes issues and adds improvements to the Microsoft Installer versions of Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016 [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-released-the-january-2019-non-security-office-updates/

How to Decrypt the Aurora Ransomware with AuroraDecrypter

If you have been infected with a Aurora Ransomware variant, then you are in luck as a program called AuroraDecrypter has been created by Michael Gillespie that allows you recover your encryption key without having to pay the ransom. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-to-decrypt-the-aurora-ransomware-with-auroradecrypter/

Face Unlock Feature Is Useless in 4 out of 10 Phones

According to a Consumentenbond report, face recognition was fooled with a photo in 42 of the 110 tested devices [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/face-unlock-feature-is-useless-in-4-out-of-10-phones/