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Chinese promotion company hijacks Android devices around the world

“A Chinese mobile app promotion company has created malicious adware that allows them to gain complete control of users’ Android devices. The company misuses this …

Apple tackles the XcodeGhost crisis by removing apps, alerting devs and users

“The XcodeGhost incident has demonstrated that however secure a system is thought to be, there’s always a way in. It also shows how the very human tendency of …

Using external URL shorteners for internal needs may lead to sensitive data leaks

Using external URL shortener services to create better-looking links to internal company documents, sensitive files and internal websites is a practice that company employees …

Killing computer infrastructures with a bang!

In an attempt to demonstrate how easy it would be for attackers to perform a high-voltage attack against a company’s computer infrastructure and take it down by damaging …

WD My Cloud NAS devices can be hijacked by attackers

Researchers with security consultancy VerSprite have unearthed several vulnerabilities in Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS product, which can be exploited by local and …

ENISA provides details on the complex cybersecurity exercise carried out in 2014

ENISA released the public version of the After Action Report of the pan-European cybersecurity exercise Cyber Europe 2014 (CE2014). This report, approved by the Member States, …

Firefox 41 includes critical security updates

Mozilla released Firefox 41.. This latest version comes with includes four critical, five high, nine moderate and one minor security update.Fixed in Firefox 41: 2015-114 …

Quantifiable differences in security performance across industries

BitSight Technologies analyzed Security Ratings of nearly 10,000 organizations in six industries – finance, federal government, retail, energy and utilities, healthcare and …

Most gamers lack confidence in developers’ security safeguards

83 percent believe game developers should be responsible for securing players’ personal data, however fewer than 40 percent said they feel confident in current safeguards, …

NIST will award $3.6 million to projects designed to improve cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will award $3.6 million for three pilot projects designed to make online …

Facebook tries to help advertisers and users with new ad control options

The ads you see on Facebook are set to become even more targeted, as the social network’s interest-based advertising, which they have been rolling out for the past year, …

Exploit broker offers $1 million for reliable iOS 9 exploit

Here’s a treat for hackers and security researchers who don’t mind selling information about zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder: Zerodium, the zero-day …

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