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Personal info of 12+ million Dutch mobile phone owners easily accessible to hackers

Sijmen Ruwhof, a freelance IT security consultant and ethical hacker from Utrecht, recently stumbled across what turned out to be an example of how poor security practices of …

Technology
Nemesis financial malware kit gains bootkit capabilities, extra stealth

A threat group that steals mostly payment card data from financial services organizations has added a bootkit utility to their malware toolkit. This new capability assures the …

Four critical Android bugs patched, one could lead to permanent device compromise

Google’s December security update for Android has been pushed out to Nexus devices on Monday, and it contains fixes for 19 vulnerabilities, four of which are deemed …

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“Backstabbing” malware steals mobile backups via infected computers

In this day and age, our mobile devices carry more personal and business information than any other electronic device. Is it any wonder, then, that attackers want to have …

Microsoft warns of imminent end of support for all but the latest Internet Explorer versions

Windows users who still prefer Internet Explorer to all other browsers have been urged by Microsoft to update to the latest (and last) version of the browser (v11), as the …

Millions of smartphones, IoT devices risk compromise due to 3-year-old bug

Can you believe that an estimated 6.1 million smart phones, routers, and smart TVs are vulnerable to remote code execution attacks due to security bugs that have been fixed …

Signal secure messaging app now available on the desktop

The Open Whisper Systems nonprofit has released the beta version of their Signal secure messaging app for desktop computers.Signal is often recommended by privacy-minded …

Simply Secure offers free usability design help to developers of privacy, security tools

It is a truth universally acknowledged that privacy and security tools that are easy to use will be more popular that those that aren’t. Another such truth is that being …

A deadly campaign delivers Pony info-stealer followed by Cryptowall ransomware

After the tech support scam paired with ransomware, another deadly combination has been seen targeting PC users: info-stealer coupled with ransomware. According to Heimdal …

High-impact DoS flaw patched in Node.js, update as soon as possible

The Node.js Foundation has pushed out a patch for its eponymous open source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications. The fix plugs two …

A double whammy of tech support scam and ransomware hits US, UK users

Tech support scams and ransomware usually don’t go together, but there’s a first time for everything. Symantec researchers have spotted a generic tech support scam …

Elasticsearch servers actively targeted by botmasters

Elasticsearch is one of the most popular choices when it comes to enterprise search engines.Unfortunately, a couple of remote code execution flaws (CVE-2015-5377, …

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