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9271 crucial vulnerabilities found in 185 firmware images of embedded devices

A study into the security of the Internet of Things has confirmed that the web interfaces for user administration of commercial, off-the-shelf embedded devices – …

Cyber crooks actively hijacking servers with unpatched vBulletin installations

Administrators of vBulletin installations would do well to install the latest vBulletin Connect updates as soon as possible, as cyber crooks are actively searching for servers …

Cross-device tracking via imperceptible audio beacons threatens user privacy

As consumers use multiple devices through the day, and tracking cookies become increasingly less effective, the advertising industry is looking for new ways to track …

Bug in Android Gmail app allows effective email spoofing

Yan Zhu, a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has unearthed a flaw in the Gmail Android app that can lead to very effective phishing attacks.The flaw is …

Phishers are targeting millions of DHL customers

As the end-of-the-year holidays are quickly approaching, people are starting to order more things (read: gifts for themselves and loved ones) online so that they can avoid the …

Google debuts customized warning for social engineering sites

Google Chrome users will from now on be faced with a new, customized warning every time they visit a website/page that contains social engineering content:“The threat …

Email is more secure today than it was two years ago

Google has partnered with University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, and they have been trying to discover, for the last couple of years, how email security has …

Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts.“I mostly wanted to …

Database of 70 million prisoner phone calls breached, leaked

A vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call has …

Researchers hack Vizio Smart TVs to access home network

Not only do Vizio’s Smart TVs track users’ viewing habits by default (and that information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to …

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other …

Digitally signed spam campaign spotted delivering malware

We’ve all heard about digitally signed malware, but have you ever been targeted with a digitally signed spam email? Someone did, and has shared the signature notice with …

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