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Your smartphone’s unlock pattern or PIN can be easily cracked

Locking your smartphone or tablet when not in use is a great idea, but you should be aware that shoulder-surfing individuals can easily discover the PIN or pattern you use to …

DNS Security
Review: DNS Security

About the authors Allan Liska is a Consulting Systems Engineer at FireEye, and Geoffrey Stowe is an Engineering Lead at Palantir Technologies. Inside DNS Security: Defending …

iPhone, iPad, iOS, Apple
Apple releases security patches for everything, update today!

On Monday, Apple released its latest batch of security patches for macOS, Safari, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iTunes and iCloud for Windows. The iTunes and iCloud for Windows updates …

Cisco WebEx
Cisco WebEx extension opens Chrome users to drive-by malware attacks

Windows users who have the widely used Cisco WebEx extension installed on Chrome are in danger of getting silently hacked when visiting a malicious website. The vulnerability, …

eye dark
How money-hungry data brokers erode privacy in China

A recent expose by Southern Metropolis Daily, a Chinese daily newspaper known for its investigative reporting, has revealed that random people with enough money at their …

Android malware
Researchers predict upsurge of Android banking malware

Android users, beware: source code and instructions for creating a potent Android banking Trojan have been leaked on a hacker forum, and researchers are expecting an onslaught …

Encrypted webmail service Lavabit relaunched

Lavabit, the secure encrypted webmail service used by Edward Snowden, is back online. Lavabit founder and operator Ladar Levison shut it down in 2013 when the US government …

Meitu
Meitu photo retouching app may be invading your privacy

Have you heard about Meitu, the photo retouching mobile app that turns people into more cutesy or beautiful versions of themselves? Chances are that even if you don’t …

ransomware
Satan: A new Ransomware as a Service

If you’ve been hit by ransomware that has scrambled the names of your encrypted files and has appended the .stn extension to them, you’ve been targeted by Satan …

Abstract 7
Spora ransomware could become the new Locky

A recent decrease of Locky ransomware infections has been tied with the lack of activity of the Necurs botnet, which is used to deliver the malware directly to potential …

Oracle
Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update fixes 270 vulnerabilities

Oracle has released the first Critical Patch Update scheduled for 2017, and it’s massive. It fixes 270 vulnerabilities across multiple products, and over 100 of them are …

Apple
Fruitfly: Unusual Mac backdoor used for tightly targeted attacks?

Researchers have found and analyzed a Mac backdoor that is unusual in many ways. The malware – detected as OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin by Malwarebytes but dubbed Fruitfly by …

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