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Image: Kon Karampelas Facebook filed today a federal lawsuit in a California court against OneAudience, a New Jersey-based data analytics firm. The social networking giant claims that OneAudience paid app developers to install its Software Development Kit (SDK) in their apps, and later used the control it had over the SDK’s code to harvest data […] More
Image: Intel At the RSA 2020 security conference in San Francisco yesterday, Intel presented a summary of its security efforts from last year. In 2019, Intel said it patched 236 security flaws, of which only 5% (11 bugs) were CPU-related vulnerabilities. All the 11 bugs were side-channel attacks that exploited the hardware architecture and internal […] More
Google’s Advanced Protection Program is aimed at people who are at the greatest risk of targeted attacks, such as journalists, activists, business leaders, and political campaign teams. Don’t worry, if you don’t fall into one of those categories, because the Advanced Protection Program is available for all. Here’s how to activate Advanced Protection Program to […] More
Cisco is working on a set of patches to address a recently-disclosed vulnerability that can be exploited to intercept Wi-Fi network traffic. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15126, has been nicknamed “Kr00k” and was disclosed at the RSA 2020 security conference in San Francisco by ESET researchers on Wednesday. Kr00k is a vulnerability that permits attackers […] More
The UK’s cybersecurity agency has updated its guidance on what to do after a ransomware attack, following a series of incidents where organisations were hit with ransomware, but also had their backups encrypted because they had left them connected to their networks. Keeping a backup copy of vital data is a good way of reducing […] More
The majority of state and local government agencies are failing to prepare their employees to spot cyberattacks or teach them how to handle ransomware incidents in the workplace, new research suggests. On Thursday, IBM Security released the results of a new study, conducted on its behalf by The Harris Poll, containing responses from close to […] More
An English local authority has confirmed that ransomware is the form of cyberattack behind ongoing IT disruption that started almost three weeks ago, with the council’s online services still being disrupted by the incident today. It’s the first time that Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (RCBC) has confirmed network-encrypting malware to be the reason for services having […] More
Image: ZDNet Security researchers say that an Android malware strain can now extract and steal one-time passcodes (OTP) generated through Google Authenticator, a mobile app that’s used as a two-factor authentication (2FA) layer for many online accounts. Google launched the Authenticator mobile app in 2010. The app works by generating six to eight-digits-long unique codes […] More
