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US will revise Wassenaar pact changes

US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) will rethink the Wassenaar pact changes regarding “cybersecurity items” that it proposed and made …

Researchers devise passive attacks for identifying Tor hidden services

A group of MIT researchers have devised two attacks that could identify, with a high degree of certainty (88%), an anonymous hidden service or client.Hidden services are …

New Android bug can put devices into a coma

In the wake of the explosive discovery of the Android Stagefright vulnerability, Trend Micro researchers have revealed the existence of another, similar one that can make …

Researchers hack Linux-powered sniper rifle

When talking about the Internet of Things – “things” with an embedded computing system able to interoperate within the Internet infrastructure – we …

United Airlines hacked by same group that breached Anthem and OPM

United Airlines has been breached, and investigators believe the perpetrators to be the same group that hacked US health insurer Anthem and stole personal and employment …

Rowhammer.js: The first remote software-induced hardware-fault attack

A group of Austrian and French researchers have devised a relatively simple way to remotely exploit the Rowhammer bug present in some computer chips. Their version of the …

Check out the Windows 10 security features

Today is the day that Windows 10 becomes available to users around the world.The new (and some old-but-new again) features are already known to the public: the Start button is …

Breaches might be inevitable, but penalties are not harsh enough

A panel on the topic of data breaches organized by cyber security and penetration testing company Cognosec has revealed that most industry professionals believe that breaches …

Users force LinkedIn to bring back connections download tool used by scrapers

LinkedIn users have rejected a new data export process set up by the company, which would allow them to export their connections’ information with a delay of 24 or, …

Apple patches serious remotely exploitable iTunes and App Store flaw

Security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri from Vulnerability Lab has discovered a serious vulnerability in Apple’s App Store and iTunes web apps, which can lead to …

Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior

The problems with passwords have already been well documented, and the main problem with static biometrics (“something you are”: fingerprints, retina patterns, …

One in 600 websites exposes sensitive info via easily accessible .git folder

Git is the most popular tool for software version control out there. Created by Linus Torvalds to facilitate Linux kernel development, Git is a boon for software developers as …

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