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Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release

As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking …

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Google Safe Browsing goes after repeat offenders

Google has had enough of sites that repeatedly endanger end users, either through malware, unwanted software, phishing or other social engineering and deceptive tactics. …

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Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of …

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TrickBot banking Trojan is the next big threat

After months of testing, a new banking Trojan called TrickBot is being aggressively slung at owners of personal and business bank accounts in UK and Australia. …

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OAuth2.0 implementation flaw allows attackers to pop Android users’ accounts

Incorrect OAuth2.0 implementation by third party mobile app developers has opened users of those apps to account compromise, three researchers from the Chinese University of …

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Bug in Chrome for mobile exploited for drive-by Android malware downloads

Users of the mobile version of Google Chrome should be extra careful when faced with unsolicited offers to install a popular app, Kaspersky Lab researchers warn. Cyber crooks …

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Dutch police takes over darknet market, posts warning

As law enforcement agencies around the world continue taking down online markets on the Dark Web, the Dutch National Police and the nation’s Public Prosecution Service …

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Review: The Basics of Cyber Safety

About the authors John Sammons is an Associate Professor and Director of the undergraduate program in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance at Marshall University in …

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Tech support scammers use old bug to freeze browsers

Tech support scammers are exploiting a bug that maxes out users’ CPU and memory capability and effectively freezes the browser and possibly the computer, in an attempt …

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20,000 affected by Tesco Bank security breach

It’s been a rough weekend for 20,000 customers of British retail Tesco Bank: they’ve witnessed their bank accounts being plundered and have been phoning the bank …

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14 arrested for laundering millions stolen with malware

The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested fourteen individuals suspected of laundering more than £11 million stolen through the use of malware. The money was stolen …

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Nigerian scammers: Then and now

The image that the expression “Nigerian scammer” conjures up in most people’s heads is still that of the confidence man behind the keyboard, convincing …

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