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Facebook now supports 2FA via authenticator apps
Facebook has good news for users who wish to secure their accounts with two-factor authentication but aren’t comfortable sharing their phone number with the social …

Microsoft will extend GDPR rights to customers worldwide
Microsoft has announced it will extend the rights that are at the heart of GDPR to all of their consumer customers worldwide. “Known as Data Subject Rights, they include …

European users can request a copy of the data Apple keeps on them
Apple has set up a Data and Privacy portal where users can make a request to download all the data Apple has on them, correct their personal information, deactivate or delete …

VPNFilter malware compromises over 500,000 networking devices around the world
Cisco Talos researchers have flagged a huge botnet of small and home office routers and NAS devices, capable of collecting communications and data and launching cyber attacks. …

How a URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But Coinhive’s URL shortener carries …

Researchers hack BMW cars, discover 14 vulnerabilities
Keen Security Lab researchers have discovered fourteen vulnerabilities affecting a variety of BMW car models. The flaws could be exploited to gain local and remote access to …

New Spectre-like flaw found in CPUs using speculative execution
A new flaw that can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems has been discovered in modern CPUs. CVE-2018-3639, discovered by …

Certain types of content make for irresistible phishes
A mature anti-phishing program keeps organizations safer, claims Cofense, and offers as proof the decreasing susceptibility of their customers’ employees to mock …

The percentage of open source code in proprietary apps is rising
The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary applications keeps rising and with it the risk of those apps being compromised by attackers leveraging …

Fortnite is coming to Android, but malicious fake apps are already there
Android users eager to play the increasingly popular Fortnite survival game on their mobile devices are being targeted left and right with malicious apps masquerading as the …

Chrome to dynamically point out “Not secure” HTTP sites
Google expects HTTPS to become the default, and is preparing users for it by slowly moving Chrome towards showing only negative security indicators. Google’s own numbers …

Google will force Android OEMs to push out security patches regularly
Android P, the ninth major version of the widely-used mobile OS, is expected to be released later this year. Google has already announced a slew of security and privacy …
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