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Millions affected by Scottrade brokerage breach that dates back two years

Missouri-based retail brokerage firm Scottrade has suffered a breach nearly two years ago, but they are only notifying their customers about it now, because they only found …

Car hacking via compromised car diagnostic tools

Car hacking is a topic that has received considerable attention from security researchers in the last year or so, and the general public and (hopefully) lawmakers are finally …

Advertising malware affects non-jailbroken iOS devices

“YiSpecter is infecting iOS devices belonging to Chinese and Taiwanese users, and is the first piece of malware that successfully targets both jailbroken and …

Personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in Experian breach

Personal information of some 15 million T-Mobile US customers and applicants has been stolen by hackers who managed to breach several Experian servers. The credit agency …

New, improved Ghost Push variants continue to target Android users

“The danger of apps Trojanized with Ghost Push malware is far from over – according to Trend Micro researchers, the number of variants of the hard-to-remove …

Fake PayPal app is going after German users’ banking credentials

An email spam run impersonating PayPal is actively targeting German Android users and trying to trick them into downloading what is ostensibly the official PayPal app, but is …

Unexpectedly benevolent malware improves security of routers, IoT devices

At this point in time, the existence of a botnet comprising of tens of thousands of compromised routers and other IoT devices is not news. Nevertheless, this latest one mapped …

Stagefright 2.0: A billion Android devices could be compromised

Most Android users are, once again, in danger of having their devices compromised by simply previewing specially crafted MP3 or MP4 files.Zimperium researchers, who were the …

Apple releases OS X El Capitan, patches passcode loophole in iOS

Yesterday Apple released OS X 10.11 El Capitan to end users. With it, the company concentrated more on performance and security instead on new features.Among the security …

Compromising Macs with simple Gatekeeper bypass

Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack, has discovered a worryingly simple way to bypass OS X’s Gatekeeper defense mechanism: just bundle up a …

The barriers to cybersecurity research, and how to remove them

Earlier this year, a considerable number of computer scientists and lawyers, from academia, civil society, and industry, congregated at UC Berkeley School of Law to take part …

500 million users at risk of compromise via unpatched WinRAR bug

A critical vulnerability has been found in the latest version of WinRAR, the popular file archiver and compressor utility for Windows, and can be exploited by remote attackers …

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