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Vivaldi browser
Why the Vivaldi browser wants you to control everything

The number of Internet users has been growing steadily, and now stands at nearly 3.5 billion. And despite the growing popularity of mobile devices and specialized apps, the …

91.1% of ICS hosts have vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely

To minimize the possibility of a cyber attack, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are supposed to be run in a physically isolated environment. However this is not always the …

DataDog
System monitoring company Datadog suffers breach

The team behind Datadog, a widely used SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for IT infrastructure, operations and development teams, has announced on Friday that they …

Phone
Hacking smartphones via voice commands hidden in YouTube videos

A group of researchers from Georgetown University and UC Berkeley have demonstrated how voice commands hidden in YouTube videos can be used by malicious attackers to …

Pokemon Go
Playing Pokémon GO can lead to unexpected dangers

Interest in Pokémon GO, the mobile augmented reality game that has users going places in the real world to capture, train, and battle with virtual Pokemon, has exploded the …

fb secret conversations
Secret Conversations: End-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger

After integrating Open Whisper Systems’ Signal Protocol into WhatsApp earlier this year, Facebook has done the same to the Facebook Messenger app, and called the feature …

Users lock
What happens to consumer trust when a business is breached?

In this podcast recorded at Infosecurity Europe 2016, Bill Mann, Chief Product Officer at Centrify, talks about what happens to consumer trust when a business is breached. The …

deep web
Cyber espionage group uses low profile tools to hunt high profile targets

Kaspersky Lab researchers investigated a threat actor that was undertaking aggressive cyber espionage activity in the Asian region, targeting multiple diplomatic and …

London
UK: Cybercrime now bigger threat than traditional crime

The accelerating pace of technology and criminal cyber capability currently outpaces the UK’s collective response to cybercrime, calling for stronger collaborative working …

Abstract
Week in review: Mac malware boom, TP-LINK loses control of configuration domains

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: TP-LINK loses control of two device configuration domains Security …

BMW ConnectedDrive
BMW ConnectedDrive flaws could be misused to tamper with car settings

Security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri has found two vulnerabilities in the BMW ConnectedDrive web portal/web application. About the vulnerabilities in BMW ConnectedDrive The …

Firefox
Kovter malware masquerades as Firefox update

Click-ad-fraud Kovter malware, packaged as a legitimate Firefox browser update, is being delivered to unsuspecting victims via drive-by-download attacks. Kovter, which also …

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