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Monthly Archives: October 2019
Watch out for this latest LinkedIn phish that’s ‘sent’ by a friend
We recently showed you how crooks rip off social networking passwords – here’s what they do with stolen accounts.
Update now! Windows users targeted by iTunes Software Updater zero-day
The flaw is a rare ‘unquoted path class’ described as “so thoroughly documented that you would expect programmers to be well aware…” But that’s not the case.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company
Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains.
Apple says Tencent isn’t snooping on your browsing habits
Apple was quick to allay user concerns this weekend after someone spotted that it was working with Chinese company Tencent to check its users’ website requests for malicious URLs.
350+ hackers hunt down missing people in first such hackathon
Organizers said 100 leads were generated every 10 minutes by contestants using OSINT – open-source intelligence such as online searches.
Stalker found pop star by searching eyes’ reflections on Google Maps
A man confessed to stalking and attacking a young pop star by zooming in on the reflections in her eyes from selfies.
Soldering spy chips inside firewalls is now a cheap hack, shows researcher
The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesn’t look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen.
Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code
Old passwords never die… they just become easier to decode.
Hacker asking $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.