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Latest Android patches fix critical ‘QualPwn’ Wi-Fi flaws
The August 2019 security bulletin is out – and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.
Baldr malware unpicked with a little help from crooks’ bad opsec
New research from Sophos takes an exhaustive look at the Baldr password stealer.
NVIDIA patches high-severity bugs in Windows GPUs and SHIELD
NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver, three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.
Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000
His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.
GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach
The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.
Attackers ransom bookseller’s exposed MongoDB database
Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing 2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librería Porrúa.
Google and Apple suspend contractor access to voice recordings
This week, Apple and Google announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors. Let’s start with Apple. Apple’s privacy hump began a week ago when The Guardian ran a story revealing that contractors “regularly hear” all sorts of things Apple customers […]
Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers
Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called ‘j3ws3r on Twitter’: I’m here to warn the masses about SMS email gateways. Please look up how to disable it […]
FileZilla fixes show how far we’ve come since Heartbleed
What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014’s Heartbleed bug?