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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…
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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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Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:44:04 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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Credit to Author: Daniel Oberhaus| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:34:42 +0000
The US has operated an extensive network of missile warning systems for over half a century, but next-generation missiles will put it to the test.
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Credit to Author: Preston Gralla| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:18:00 -0800
When Iran launches cyberattacks in revenge for the killing of Major Gen. Qasem Soleimani — which it almost certainly will do — the attack vector, as always, will be Windows. And when that happens, your PC and your business’s PCs will be right in the crosshairs. Here’s why — and how you can protect your machines and your business.
To understand the coming cyberattacks, it’s useful to look back. For more than a decade, the U.S. and Iran have engaged in low-level cyberwarfare, with occasional bursts of higher-level attacks. The most destructive of them was Stuxnet, launched in 2009 by the U.S. and Israel against Iran’s nuclear program. It exploited four zero-day flaws in Windows machines, which controlled the centrifuges Iran used to create nuclear material that can be used in nuclear weapons.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:54:00 -0800
Your iPhone (like most smartphones) knows when it is picked up, what you do with it, who you call, where you go, who you know – and a bunch more personal information, too.
The snag with your device knowing all this information is that once the data is understood, that information can be shared or even used against you.
Jane Horvath, Apple’s senior director for global privacy, appeared at CES 2020 this week to discuss the company’s approach to smartphone security. She stressed the company’s opposition to the creation of software backdoors into devices, and also said: