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Chinese researchers hijack Tesla cars from afar

Tesla car owners are urged to update their car’s firmware to the latest version available, as it fixes security vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to take …

MoDaCo
880,000 users exposed in MoDaCo data breach

Subscribers of UK-based MoDaCo, a forum specialising in smartphone news and reviews, have been unpleasantly surprised by notifications that the site and their account have …

Business
UK: Financial fraud soars

More than 1 million incidents of financial fraud – payment card, remote banking and cheque fraud – occurred in the first six months of 2016, according to official …

Lock keyboard
HDDCryptor ransomware uses open source tools to thoroughly own systems

HDDCryptor (aka Mamba) is a particularly destructive piece of ransomware that encrypts files in mounted drives and network shares, locks the computers’ hard disk, and …

Xiaomi
Xiaomi smartphones come equipped with backdoor

When you buy a new mobile device with certain apps already pre-installed on, you’re effectively forced to trust that the device maker or reseller (depending on who …

iCloud spam
Mobile users actively spammed from compromised iCloud accounts

Spammers have been compromising North American Apple users’ iCloud accounts, and using them to send spammy text messages to mobile users in China. The messages advertise …

BENIGNCERTAIN-like flaw affects various Cisco networking devices

The leaking of BENIGNCERTAIN, an NSA exploit targeting a vulnerability in legacy Cisco PIX firewalls that allows attackers to eavesdrop on VPN traffic, has spurred Cisco to …

power meter
ICS-CERT warns of remotely exploitable power meter flaws

Two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, one of which can lead to remote code execution, have been found in Schneider Electric’s ION Power Meter products and FENIKS PRO Elnet …

Pokemon Go
Bogus Pokémon GO guide app roots Android devices

The popularity of Pokémon GO is apparently on the wane, but there are still more than enough players to make it a good lure for cyber crooks. In fact, fake apps like the …

Eyes
What proposed Rule 41 changes mean for your privacy

Last week, US Senator Ron Wyden took the floor of the Senate to explain why his (and his colleagues’) Stopping Mass Hacking Act should be voted in. The bill, consisting …

Adobe AIR
Android apps based on Adobe AIR SDK send out unencrypted data

Developers using the Adobe AIR SDK should update to the latest version of the software development kit and rebuild the apps as soon as possible if they don’t want their …

Google Nexus
Hack a Nexus from afar, get $200,000

Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …

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