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Printers all over the US “hacked” to spew anti-Semitic fliers

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, one of the two men who were prosecuted and convicted for harvesting e-mails and authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple’s iPad from …

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US govt has unlocked San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

The US Department of Justice has found a way to get into the iPhone 5C owned by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters. With a short status report filed with the …

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Facebook testing new features to prevent user harassment

Facebook is testing three new features that should help prevent or at least minimize harassment of users on its platform. The first will alert users if someone tries to …

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OS X zero day bug allows hackers to bypass system integrity protection

An OS X zero day vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass System Integrity Protection, Apple’s newest protection feature, and to escalate their privileges, simplifying …

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Emergency Java update plugs system compromise hole

Oracle has issued an emergency security update for Java to plug a critical flaw (CVE-2016-0636) that could be exploited by luring users to visit a web page hosting the …

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RCE flaw affects DVRs sold by over 70 different vendors

RSA security researcher Rotem Kerner has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability that affects digital video recorders (DVRs) sold by more than 70 different vendors …

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Cheap radio attack can be used to unlock and steal 24 car models

A group of researchers from ADAC, the largest automobile club in Germany and Europe, have demonstrated how the keyless “comfort locking” system used by most …

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How to block malicious macros for good?

Microsoft is finally doing something about the increasing threat of malicious macros: it has added a new feature in Office 2016 that will block macros from loading in certain …

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Tor Project exploring ways to keep its software and users safe

In view of the recent legal battle between the FBI and Apple regarding phone encryption, and this article revealing that there have been many instances where the US Department …

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Cyber crooks spread Surprise ransomware via TeamViewer

A new ransomware family has been encrypting users’ files and appending the .surprise extension to them. The malware itself doesn’t differ much from other similar …

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Apple updates its products, fixes iMessages zero-day

On Monday Apple has pushed out updates for its many products: iOS, OS X, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, tvOS, and Xcode. Of these, the most eagerly awaited was that for iOS, as …

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Encryption securing money transfers on mobile phones can be broken

A group of researchers has proved that it is possible to break the encryption used by many mobile payment apps by simply measuring and analysing the electromagnetic radiation …

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