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Tag Archives: Security threats
Coinbase explains background to June zero-day Firefox attack
A recent, highly targeted attack on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase offers a glimpse into how sophisticated phishing attacks can be.
Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons
Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren’t protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.
Android users menaced by pre-installed malware
Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices – malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.
Apple will hand out unlocked iPhones to vetted researchers
It formalizes the reality: “pre-jailbroken” iPhones were already on the black market.
GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
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.