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ICS-CERT warns of remotely exploitable power meter flaws
Two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, one of which can lead to remote code execution, have been found in Schneider Electric’s ION Power Meter products and FENIKS PRO Elnet …
Bogus Pokémon GO guide app roots Android devices
The popularity of Pokémon GO is apparently on the wane, but there are still more than enough players to make it a good lure for cyber crooks. In fact, fake apps like the …
What proposed Rule 41 changes mean for your privacy
Last week, US Senator Ron Wyden took the floor of the Senate to explain why his (and his colleagues’) Stopping Mass Hacking Act should be voted in. The bill, consisting …
Android apps based on Adobe AIR SDK send out unencrypted data
Developers using the Adobe AIR SDK should update to the latest version of the software development kit and rebuild the apps as soon as possible if they don’t want their …
Hack a Nexus from afar, get $200,000
Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …
Amex users hit with phishing email offering anti-phishing protection
American Express users are being actively targeted with phishing emails impersonating the company and advising users to create an “American Express Personal Safe …
6.6 million ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack
If you’ve ever registered with ClixSense – and millions have – you can consider all your personal information shared with the service compromised. The …
GM recalls 3.6 million cars due to potentially fatal software defect
Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) …
Improve SecOps by making collaboration easier
There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking …
Stingray use lacks transparency and meaningful oversight
Cell-site simulators – aka Stingrays, aka IMSI catchers – are widely used by US law enforcement, usually without a warrant that such type of surveillance should …
Man hacked, blackmailed gold bullion trading firm
25-year-old Adam Penny hacked the systems of an unnamed gold bullion trading firm, and used the stolen information about gold deliveries to intercept them before they are …
US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet
What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s …
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