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OpenWPM: An automated, open source framework for measuring web privacy

Among the speakers at the first ever Privacy Con, organized by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and held last Thursday in Washington, DC, was Steven Englehard, a Ph.D. …

Money
Worldwide IT spending outlook for 2016

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.54 trillion dollars in 2016, just a 0.6 percent increase over 2015 spending of $3.52 trillion dollars, according to Gartner, Inc. …

LastPass
LostPass: A worryingly simple phishing attack aimed at LastPass users

Security researcher (and Praesido CTO) Sean Cassidy has demonstrated at ShmooCon how easy it can be for hackers to steal LastPass users’ email, password, and two-factor …

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Casino operator sues Trustwave for failing to spot and stop hackers

Nevada-based Affinity Gaming, which operates five casinos in that state and 11 altogether in the US, is suing infosec outfit Trustwave, claiming that the company did a poor …

OS X Gatekeeper
OS X’s Gatekeeper bypassed again

Do you remember when, last October, Synack director of research Patrick Wardle found a simple way to evade OS X’s Gatekeeper defense mechanism by bundling up a …

Hyatt
250 Hyatt hotels around the world hit with PoS malware

In late December, the Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that they found malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations, but …

OpenSSH
Flaw allows malicious OpenSSH servers to steal users’ private SSH keys

Qualys researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular OpenSSH implementation of the secure shell protocol, one of which (CVE-2016-0777) could be exploited by …

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Cheap web cams can open permanent, difficult-to-spot backdoors into networks

They might seems small and relatively insignificant, but cheap wireless web cams deployed in houses and offices (and connected to home and office networks) might just be the …

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Cisco kills hardcoded password bug in Wi-Fi access points

Along with fixes for a number of older vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software, the Cisco IOS Software Common Industrial Protocol, and the OpenSSL package …

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CWA hackers breached US DNI Clapper’s email, broadband account

Crackas With Attitude (CWA), a group of hackers with a pro-Palestinian agenda, have hit another high-rank US intelligence chief. The first time around, in October 2015, it was …

Smartwatch
Your smartwatch can give away your payment card’s PIN code

Smartwatches can be a perfectly useful and handy wearable device for some users, but it’s good to keep in mind that using them might mean opening yourself to an …

Android
Android banking Trojan defeats voice call-based 2FA

Bankosy is a banking Trojan that has been targeting Android users for a while now, but has only recently been updated with a new capability of note: the ability to deceive …

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