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Monthly Archives: February 2019
Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one
Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.
Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back
Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.
Sorry, we didn’t mean to keep that secret microphone a secret, says Google
It’s been off by default, Google says – not much consolation to those who don’t cotton to the notion of a “secret” listening gadget.
Can you really sniff out gas station card skimmers with your phone?
A viral post suggests (wrongly) that card skimmers always use Bluetooth. Anyway, just looking at nearby Bluetooth names doesn’t help much…
Ep. 020 – Leaky containers, careless coders and risky USB cables [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast… enjoy!
Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees
Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack?
Hackers unleash social media worm after bug report ignored
Is it ok to launch a benign proof of concept that you know will go wide, to bring a flaw to people’s attention, or should you stay quiet?
Google’s working on stopping sites from blocking Incognito mode
Google Chrome’s Incognito mode hasn’t been an impenetrable privacy shield: For years, it’s been a snap for web developers to detect when Chrome users are browsing in private mode and to block site visitors who use it. Now it looks like Google plans to close that loophole.
Facebook flaw could have allowed an attacker to hijack accounts
The CSRF bypass flaw has now been fixed, and the researcher who discovered it has netted $25,000.