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Hacking smartphones via voice commands hidden in YouTube videos

A group of researchers from Georgetown University and UC Berkeley have demonstrated how voice commands hidden in YouTube videos can be used by malicious attackers to …

Pokemon Go
Playing Pokémon GO can lead to unexpected dangers

Interest in Pokémon GO, the mobile augmented reality game that has users going places in the real world to capture, train, and battle with virtual Pokemon, has exploded the …

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Secret Conversations: End-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger

After integrating Open Whisper Systems’ Signal Protocol into WhatsApp earlier this year, Facebook has done the same to the Facebook Messenger app, and called the feature …

BMW ConnectedDrive
BMW ConnectedDrive flaws could be misused to tamper with car settings

Security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri has found two vulnerabilities in the BMW ConnectedDrive web portal/web application. About the vulnerabilities in BMW ConnectedDrive The …

Firefox
Kovter malware masquerades as Firefox update

Click-ad-fraud Kovter malware, packaged as a legitimate Firefox browser update, is being delivered to unsuspecting victims via drive-by-download attacks. Kovter, which also …

Linux Server Security
Review: Linux Server Security

About the author Chris Binnie is a Technical Consultant with 20 years of experience working with Linux systems, and a writer for Linux Magazine and Admin Magazine. He built an …

Apple
Keydnap malware opens backdoor, goes after passwords in OS X keychain

ESET researchers have revealed the existence of another new piece of malware aimed at Mac machines and users: Keydnap. Keydnap has the ability to steal passwords and keys …

Android Marshmallow
Google fixes 108 bugs in July Android security update

Google has released an unusually hefty Android Security Bulletin for July. In fact, so many vulnerabilities have been fixed – 108 in all – that the patches come in …

Magnify
Author of potentially malicious OS X Pirrit adware discovered

An unnamed web developer working for Israeli marketing and advertising company TargetingEdge is the creator of the Pirrit adware targeting Mac machines, Cybereason security …

Apple
New Mac OS X backdoor disguised as document converter app

Bitdefender researchers have discovered and analyzed a new, highly dangerous piece of malware targeting Mac systems and users. The malware, dubbed “Eleanor,” opens …

explode
Exploit for GNU wget RCE flaw revealed

Technical details about a serious vulnerability affecting all but the latest version of the GNU wget software have been released online, along with PoC exploit scenarios. …

IoT
Netherlands, South Korea get nationwide IoT network

In the space of a week, the Netherlands and South Korea got their own, nationwide IoT network. Late last week, Dutch telecom KPN announced that its LoRa (Long Range) network …

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