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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:00:00 +0000
The Android devices are a part of the FCC’s Lifeline Assistance Program, which makes free or subsidized phones available to millions of low-income users.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:58:18 +0000
A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pages—including celebrities and politicians—for several hours.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:54:35 +0000
Mark Zuckerberg promised default end-to-end encryption throughout Facebook’s platforms. Nearly a year later, Messenger’s not even close.
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Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 23:08:28 +0000
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:01:44 +0000
The retail giant warned holiday shoppers that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.” Honey denies the claim.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:37:59 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how Trend Micro’s collaboration with INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation helped reduce cryptojacking by 78% in Southeast Asia. Also, read about three malicious apps in…
The post This Week in Security News: INTERPOL Collaboration Reduces Cryptojacking by 78% and Three Malicious Apps Found on Google Play May be Linked to SideWinder APT Group appeared first on .
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:46:00 -0800
Just one day after releasing Firefox 72, Mozilla updated the browser with a fix to shut down active attacks, the company acknowledged.
On Wednesday, Mozilla issued Firefox 72.0.1, which included one change: A patch for the vulnerability identified as CVE-2019-17026. “We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” Mozilla said in the short description of the flaw, signaling that criminals were already leveraging the zero-day vulnerability, the term applied because there no time elapses between patching and exploitation.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:59:03 +0000
A state-sponsored group called Magnallium has been probing American electric utilities for the past year.
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