Reports are flying around as people close their Facebook accounts that phone logs and SMS messages have been sent to Facebook even though those users were using the standard Android apps to make calls and send messages. This is in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where by persuading […]
Security
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Facebook’s VPN – Onavo Protect is not quite as secure as you would like a VPN to be. As announced by Will Strafach, CEO of the Sudo Security Group in his blog the app collects the following data: When the phone is turned on and off Amount of time the VPN […]
Huge Security flaw in Microsoft’s Edge Browser which won’t be fixed until the end of March FedEx leaks 119,000 customer identities including photos Mac OS X has security flaw which allows any app to take a screenshot and see passwords Google has released details of a bug in the Edge […]
Yesterday various sources state that there have been multiple instances of Malware attacks in Russia and the Ukraine, including the Kiev Metro service. The BadRabbit malware is suspected to have originated at a Russian celebrity gossip website and has been detected in Poland, Turkey and South Korea Affected users should […]
The US Government has announced that a security flaw in the WPA2 security standard, previously considered the best method for securing your network connection. As this is a issue is at the protocol level, every device that correctly implements the WPA2 protocol is almost guaranteed to be vulnerable. Manufacturers have […]
If you downloaded or upgraded CCleaner between 15th August and September 12th 2017 it probably installed a bunch of malware. So called security firm Avast has admitted inadvertently distributing a version of CCleaner, a popular PC tune-up tool, for nearly a month with a trojan inside, infecting an estimated 2.27 million […]
Researchers say the latest Bluetooth hack could reach almost all devices, the most valuable being smartphones. Some manufacturers have released patches already, but many will have to wait. The only way to be sure this doesn’t affect you is to turn off your bluetooth. The main things to know are: […]
Many will have seen the recent global attack by the WannaCry Ransomware and the fact that it has now been stopped, semi-accidentally, by a UK security researcher alwareTech. This ransomware spread for only a few days, but infected over 900,000 computers in 150 different countries, by using an exploit to […]
30 variants of ASUS’ RT wireless routers are affected by poor cross-site request protection. RT-AC and RT-N variants using firmware older than version 3.0.0.4.380.7378 are affected. The lack of CSRF protection means that if the user has left the default credentials – admin:admin – in place, or if an […]
Startup company Lyrebird is developing a technology which shows a scary future. Given only one minute of source audio from a specific person Lyrebird’s technology can convert any text to the voice of that person. Demonstration audio on their website here show what they are currently capable of, currently it does sound […]
