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Short URLs plus cloud services equal bad security

Short URLs are great when they lead to public websites, and documents and files that aren’t meant to remain private, but you should think twice about using them to lead …

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VMware plugs critical information-leaking hole

VMware has plugged a critical security issue in the VMware Client Integration Plugin, which could allow for a Man in the Middle attack or web session hijacking in case the …

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Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …

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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows today!

The time has come to deinstall QuickTime from your Windows machine. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative has just released advisories (ZDI-16-241 and ZDI-16-242) detailing …

Blackhole exploit kit author sentenced

Dmitry Fedotov, aka “Paunch”, the creator of the infamous Blackhole and Cool exploit kits, has been sentenced to spend 7 years in prison, Russian news agency TASS …

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Cisco UCS servers can be hijacked with malicious HTTP request

A data center server platform running Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Central Software can be compromised by unauthenticated, remote attackers with a single, …

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EU privacy watchdogs not satisfied with the EU-US Privacy Shield

The Article 29 Working Party – an advisory body composed of representatives of the data protection authority of each EU Member State, the European Data Protection …

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Samsung Galaxy devices can be made to make calls, send messages while locked

Half a dozen (and possibly even more) Samsung Galaxy phones can be made to place phone calls or send text messages even when they are locked, thanks to exposed USB modems. …

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After issuing 1.7M certificates, Let’s Encrypt CA officially leaving beta

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and others, is ready to be considered a …

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GoPhish: Free phishing toolkit for training your employees

Too many system and network breaches today start with a well-designed, persuasive phishing email, and organizations and businesses would do well to continually train their …

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Identify the ransomware you’ve been hit with

Michael Gillespie, a coder that has created a password generator for unlocking the files stashed in a password-protected archive by the CryptoHost ransomware, has also created …

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CryptoHost locks files, but you can get them back

If you’re a user whose files are held for ransom by the CryptoHost (aka Manamecrypt) ransomware, despair no more about getting them back without paying for it – …

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