⚠ Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store ⚠
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It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.📖 Read
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Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store
It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.
⚠ Update WhatsApp now: MP4 video bug exposes your messages ⚠
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A now-patched-hole could have allowed remote code execution that could have exposed files and messages. Update your WhatsApp now.📖 Read
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Update WhatsApp now: MP4 video bug exposes your messages
A now-patched-hole could have allowed remote code execution that could have exposed files and messages. Update your WhatsApp now.
❌ Hackers Dump 2.2M Gaming, Cryptocurrency Passwords Online ❌
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A data breach left personal information--including email and IP addresses and first and last names—exposed in public databases, according to Troy Hunt.📖 Read
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Hackers Dump 2.2M Gaming, Cryptocurrency Passwords Online
The passwords of more than 2.2 million users of a gaming and cryptocurrency website were dumped online after dual data breaches.
🔐 Macy's holiday breach highlights retailer need for encryption and scrutiny of third party systems 🔐
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Attackers were collecting user credit card information for an entire week from the Macy's website before they were alerted. Here's how retailers can protect themselves.📖 Read
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Macy's holiday breach highlights retailer's need for encryption and scrutiny of third-party systems
Attackers were collecting user credit card information for an entire week from the Macy's website before they were alerted. Here's how retailers can protect themselves.
🕴 Vulnerability Could Give Criminals Camera Control on Millions of Android Smartphones 🕴
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Vulnerability could allow an attacker to control the camera and storage without user knowledge or permission.📖 Read
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Vulnerability Could Give Criminals Camera Control on Millions of Android Smartphones
Unauthorized activities could be triggered even if a phone is locked, its screen is turned off, or a person is in the middle of a call.
🕴 Why Multifactor Authentication Is Now a Hacker Target 🕴
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SIM swaps, insecure web design, phishing, and channel-jacking are four ways attackers are circumventing MFA technology, according to the FBI.📖 Read
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Why Multifactor Authentication Is Now a Hacker Target
SIM swaps, insecure web design, phishing, and channel-jacking are four ways attackers are circumventing MFA technology, according to the FBI.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2010-4657 (debian_linux, enterprise_linux, php)
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PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.📖 Read
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🔐 Want to attain and retain customers? Adopt data privacy policies 🔐
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Customers won't buy services or products from companies if they don't trust how their data will be used, Cisco found.📖 Read
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Want to attain and retain customers? Adopt data privacy policies
Customers won't buy services or products from companies if they don't trust how their data will be used, Cisco found.
❌ ThreatList: Admin Rights for Third Parties is the Norm ❌
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The majority give outside partners, contractors and suppliers administrative access -- without strong security policies in place.📖 Read
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ThreatList: Admin Rights for Third Parties is the Norm
The majority give outside partners, contractors and suppliers administrative access — without strong security policies in place.
❌ High-Severity Windows UAC Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation ❌
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Further details of the flaw, which has recently been patched by Microsoft, were disclosed Tuesday by researchers.📖 Read
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High-Severity Windows UAC Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation
Further details of the flaw, which has recently been patched by Microsoft, were disclosed Tuesday by researchers.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2011-1028
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The $smarty.template variable in Smarty3 allows attackers to possibly execute arbitrary PHP code via the sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_special_variable.php file.📖 Read
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ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2011-0529
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Weborf before 0.12.5 is affected by a Denial of Service (DOS) due to malformed fields in HTTP.📖 Read
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ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2010-4660
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Unspecified vulnerability in statusnet through 2010 due to the way addslashes are used in SQL string escapes..📖 Read
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🕴 Black Hat Europe Q&A: Exposing the Weaknesses in Contactless Payments 🕴
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Researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov chat about their work testing Visa's contactless payments security system vulnerabilities.📖 Read
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Black Hat Europe Q&A: Exposing the Weaknesses in Contactless Payments
Researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov chat about their work testing Visa's contactless payments security system vulnerabilities.
🕴 Former White House CIO Shares Enduring Security Strategies 🕴
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Theresa Payton explains the strategies organizations should consider as they integrate layers of new technology.📖 Read
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🕴 Employee Privacy in a Mobile Workplace 🕴
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Why businesses need guidelines for managing their employees' personal information -- without compromising on security.📖 Read
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Employee Privacy in a Mobile Workplace
Why businesses need guidelines for managing their employees' personal information -- without compromising on security.
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2011-1490 (debian_linux, opensuse, rsyslog)
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A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cause denial of the rsyslogd daemon service via a log message belonging to more than one ruleset📖 Read
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ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2011-1489 (debian_linux, opensuse, rsyslog)
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A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages were logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cause denial of the rsyslogd daemon service via a log message belonging to more than one ruleset.📖 Read
via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION‼ New - CVE-2010-4659
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in statusnet through 2010 in error message contents.📖 Read
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❌ Apache Solr Bug Gets Bumped Up to High Severity ❌
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Linux users running the enterprise-search platform Solr are potentially vulnerable to remote code execution attack.📖 Read
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Apache Solr Bug Gets Bumped Up to High Severity
Linux users running the enterprise-search platform Solr are potentially vulnerable to remote code execution attack.
🔏 NSA Reiterates Risks of Transport Layer Security Inspection 🔏
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In an advisory published this week, the NSA outlined the risks of Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI) and provided security mitigations for organizations.📖 Read
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NSA Reiterates Risks of Transport Layer Security Inspection
In an advisory published this week, the NSA outlined the risks of Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI) and provided security mitigations for organizations.