02 Sep

Back-to-School: Balancing Social Media & Mental Health

Wouldn’t it be nice if, along with grades for English, Science, and Algebra this year, our child’s report card included quarterly feedback on their mental

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02 Sep

Ex-NSA trio who spied on Americans for UAE now banned from arms exports

Three former US government cyber-spies who, among other things, illicitly compromised and snooped on Americans’ devices for the United Arab Emirates government have been banned

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01 Sep

Smartphone Alternatives: Ease Your Way into Your Child’s First Phone

“But everyone else has one.”  Those are familiar words to a parent, especially if you’re having the first smartphone conversation with your tween or pre-teen.

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01 Sep

Here’s how 5 mobile banking apps put 300,000 users’ digital fingerprints at risk

Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk

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01 Sep

Oh no, that James Webb Space Telescope snap might actually contain malware

Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims’ computers – albeit in a roundabout way. The

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01 Sep

LabMD gets another shot at defamation claim against ‘extortionate’ infosec biz

LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling.  The

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01 Sep

FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year

The FBI has urged people to be cautious and heavily research a DeFi – decentralized finance – provider before putting your money into it, after

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31 Aug

Aussies Fear Snakes, Spiders and Getting Hacked

Fears and phobias. We all have them. But what are your biggest ones? I absolutely detest snakes but spiders don’t worry me at all. Well,

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31 Aug

Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find

As the NHS in England is set to launch a competition for a far-reaching patient data platform, a public consultation has said decisions about health

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31 Aug

China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government

Researchers at security company Proofpoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said on Tuesday they had identified a cyber espionage campaign that delivers the ScanBox exploitation framework through

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30 Aug

Find a security hole in Google’s open source and you could bag a $31,337 reward

Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain

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30 Aug

Privacy, please! Why a VPN on your smartphone may be a smart move for you.

Using a VPN on your smartphone can boost your privacy in a big way, particularly with all the data tracking that’s happening out there today. 

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30 Aug

That ‘clean’ Google Translate app is actually Windows crypto-mining malware

Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches. The

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30 Aug

Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

Google in November will prohibit Android VPN apps in its Play store from interfering with or blocking advertising, a change that may pose problems for

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30 Aug

Google Play rule change will prevent Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

Google in November will prohibit Android VPN apps in its Play store from interfering with or blocking advertising, a change that may pose problems for

Author rabih
29 Aug

+Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions with 1.4 Million Users

Authored by Oliver Devane and Vallabh Chole  A few months ago, we blogged about malicious extensions redirecting users to phishing sites and inserting affiliate IDs

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29 Aug

Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers

A critical command-injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute malware, and

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27 Aug

77% of security leaders fear we’re in perpetual cyberwar from now on

In brief A survey of cybersecurity decision makers found 77 percent think the world is now in a perpetual state of cyberwarfare. In addition, 82

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