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How experts stay safe online and what non-experts can learn from them

Google researchers have asked 231 security experts and 294 web-users who aren’t security experts about their security best practices, and the list of top ones for each group …

Google helps Adobe improve Flash security

Adobe has been dealt a heavy blow after the Hacking Team data dump produced three Flash Player zero-day exploits and they begun being exploited in the wild.While Adobe was …

600TB of data exposed due to misconfigured MongoDB instances

Shodan, the search engine that lets users find devices connected to the Internet, can be used for a number of different things. As its creator, John Matherly, pointed out, …

Hacking Team’s RCS Android: The most sophisticated Android malware ever exposed

“As each day passes and researchers find more and more source code in the huge Hacking Team data dump, it becomes more clear what the company’s customers could do …

Proposed Wassenaar pact changes will harm cyber defenders instead of attackers

The comment period for the proposed amendments to the Wassenaar Arrangement regarding “cybersecurity items” has ended, and the overwhelming majority of the 150+ …

Microsoft plugs another Windows zero-day with emergency patch

Microsoft has released an emergency update that plugs a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-2426) that affects all supported versions of Windows and could allow …

Free tools for detecting Hacking Team malware in your systems

“Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, …

Hackers hit UCLA Health, access medical files of 4.5 million patients

UCLA Health, the administrative structure which governs the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hospitals, has suffered a data breach, and personal and medical …

Ashley Madison hacked, info of 37 million users stolen

Popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked, and personal information and financial records of 37 million of its users has apparently been compromised by the …

UK High Court declares emergency surveillance bill unlawful

On Friday, the UK High Court has declared Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) unlawful.DRIPA is an emergency legislation signed into law in July 2014, and its …

Google Safe Browsing to start blocking sites with ads leading to unwanted software

Ad networks that don’t vet carefully what ads they serve will be the next “victims” of Google’s Safe Browsing service.Since August 2014, Google has …

School monitoring software’s hard-coded encryption key exposed

Impero Software is the creator and seller of “Impero Education Pro”, a piece of software that’s used in many UK schools to monitor school computers for …

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