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US lawmakers propose bill to stop warrantless phone searches at US border

Four US Congressmen have introduced on Tuesday a new law aimed at protecting Americans from warrantless searches of their digital devices when they cross the US border. The …

quantum
WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee opposes encryption backdoors

As the de-facto inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s opinions on things like online privacy and encryption backdoors should carry a lot more weight than …

danger
Trump signs into law repeal of US consumers’ online privacy protections

It’s official: US Internet service providers and mobile data carriers will be able to to sell or share its customers’ Web browsing and app usage history and other …

Android malware
iOS spyware Pegasus has an equally capable Android counterpart

Mobile security firm Lookout and Google have revealed the existence of Chrysaor (aka Pegasus for Android), a powerful espionage app that is believed by both companies to be …

Wi-Fi
Apple patches drive-by Wi-Fi flaw with emergency iOS patch

Less than a week after Apple pushed out iOS 10.3 comes an iOS emergency patch that all iDevice owners should implement as soon a possible. The security note accompanying iOS …

Android apps
Through inter-app data sharing, Android apps can get your data without permission

With a newly developed toolsuite that can analyze Android apps and detect whether two or more of them can collude with each other to acquire information that they would …

biohazard
European companies hit with highly customizable ransomware

Panda Security researchers have been following and analyzing ransomware attacks that have been targeting European business for a few months now, and have tied them to the same …

WordPress
Fake SEO plugin backdoors WordPress installations

Administrators of WordPress sites, beware! A fake SEO plugin is being used by attackers to compromise WP installations. The plugin in question is named WP-Base-SEO, and is a …

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Fake DVLA SMS tricking UK residents into sharing payment card info

SMS messages made to look like they are coming from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are being flung at UK residents, in an attempt to trick them into sharing …

Review: Data Breach Preparation and Response
Review: Data Breach Preparation and Response

About the author Kevvie Fowler is a Partner and National Cyber Response Leader for KPMG Canada and has over 19 years of IT security and forensics experience. He is a SANS …

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UK residents hit with extremely personalized scam emails

A compelling and potentially very successful email spam campaign is being leveraged against UK residents, warns Sophos researcher Paul Ducklin. The email addresses the …

Microsoft
Actively exploited zero-day in IIS 6.0 affects 60,000+ servers

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 sports a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-7269) that was exploited in the wild last summer and is likely also being exploited …

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