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China 'blamed for cyber-attack' on Australian parliament
Posted by , 16-09-2019Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, according to a report b...
Ryuk: All you need to know about the highly-targeted ransomware campaigns
Posted by , 16-09-2019Ryuk ransomware targets large organizations and decides demands based on the victim organization’s value. Operated by the sophisticated eCrime group Grim Spider, this malware has the capabili...
LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
Posted by , 13-09-2019An appeals court has told LinkedIn to back off – no more interfering with a third-party data-analytics startup’s use of the publicly available data of LinkedIn’s users. The court&rs...
Critical Exim flaw opens servers to remote code execution, patch now!
Posted by , 13-09-2019The Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) is impacted by a critical vulnerability that may allow local or unauthenticated remote attackers to execute programs with root privileges on the underlying system. ...
Security experts at Google have removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.”
Posted by , 13-09-2019Google has removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists and device...
Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla's Faces Criticism
Posted by , 13-09-2019Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgra...