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Image: Mozilla Mozilla has announced today that its highly anticipated VPN (virtual private network) service will launch later this summer, ‘in the next few weeks.’ The product has also been renamed from its original name of Firefox Private Network to its new brand of the “Mozilla VPN.” The name change came after Mozilla expanded the […] More
Social media network Facebook has filed two lawsuits this week against the operators of two websites that abused its platforms to sell Instagram likes and harvest passwords and information on Facebook users, respectively. The lawsuits, announced in a blog post today, are just the latest in a long series of litigations the company has filed […] More
Except for the desktop, Linux and open-source run the IT world. With great power comes great security responsibilities. While open-source security issues can be overstated, the simple truth is antique, insecure open-source software is everywhere. The Linux Foundation knows this. To address it, the Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at […] More
The Russian government has lifted its largely ineffective two-year-old ban on the Telegram instant messaging service. In a message posted on its website, Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor said it lifted the ban after Russian prosecutors reached an agreement with Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder. Russian officials said Durov “expressed readiness to counter terrorism and extremism” content […] More
Google has removed 106 malicious Chrome extensions that have been caught collecting sensitive user data. The 106 extensions are part of a batch of 111 Chrome extensions that have been identified as malicious in a report published today by cyber-security firm Awake Security. Awake says these extensions posed as tools to improve web searches, convert […] More
A whopping 79 Netgear router models are vulnerable to a severe security flaw that can let hackers take over devices remotely. The vulnerability has been discovered by two security researchers independently, namely Adam Nichols from cyber-security GRIMM and a security researcher going by the nickname of d4rkn3ss, working for Vietnamese internet service provider VNPT. According […] More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft says that despite all the media headlines over the past few months, malware attacks that abused the coronavirus (COVID-19) theme have barely been a blip in the total volume of threats the company sees each month. These COVID-19 attacks included emails carrying malicious file attachments (also referred to as malspam) and emails […] More
The Australian government in September announced it was going to update the nation’s cybersecurity strategy, making it more relevant to the current cyber threat climate. The document would supersede the country’s current cybersecurity strategy, which was launched in April 2016 with a AU$230 million kitty. Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security Tim Watts on Wednesday night […] More
