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Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …

end of support
Uninstall QuickTime for Windows today!

The time has come to deinstall QuickTime from your Windows machine. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative has just released advisories (ZDI-16-241 and ZDI-16-242) detailing …

Blackhole exploit kit author sentenced

Dmitry Fedotov, aka “Paunch”, the creator of the infamous Blackhole and Cool exploit kits, has been sentenced to spend 7 years in prison, Russian news agency TASS …

servers
Cisco UCS servers can be hijacked with malicious HTTP request

A data center server platform running Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Central Software can be compromised by unauthenticated, remote attackers with a single, …

Privacy Shield
EU privacy watchdogs not satisfied with the EU-US Privacy Shield

The Article 29 Working Party – an advisory body composed of representatives of the data protection authority of each EU Member State, the European Data Protection …

samsung galaxy lock bypass
Samsung Galaxy devices can be made to make calls, send messages while locked

Half a dozen (and possibly even more) Samsung Galaxy phones can be made to place phone calls or send text messages even when they are locked, thanks to exposed USB modems. …

world in hand
After issuing 1.7M certificates, Let’s Encrypt CA officially leaving beta

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and others, is ready to be considered a …

gophish
GoPhish: Free phishing toolkit for training your employees

Too many system and network breaches today start with a well-designed, persuasive phishing email, and organizations and businesses would do well to continually train their …

success
Identify the ransomware you’ve been hit with

Michael Gillespie, a coder that has created a password generator for unlocking the files stashed in a password-protected archive by the CryptoHost ransomware, has also created …

open lock
CryptoHost locks files, but you can get them back

If you’re a user whose files are held for ransom by the CryptoHost (aka Manamecrypt) ransomware, despair no more about getting them back without paying for it – …

petya ransomware
Petya ransomware encryption has been cracked

Petya ransomware hit companies hard, but the good news is that there are now tools available to get the encrypted files and locked computers back. The ransomware not only …

Apple
Bug in OS X Messages client exposes messages, attachments

When in March Apple pushed out security updates for its many products, much attention has been given to a zero-day bug discovered by a team of Johns Hopkins University …

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