Avast Responds to Concerns About Selling User Data By Nathaniel Mott Avast has long been selling browsing data collected from its users. Now we know how personal that data really is.
Kaspersky: Fake Flash Updates Are Macs' Biggest Malware Threat By Lucian Armasu A Kaspersky report said that Shlayer, malware pretending to be a Flash update on streaming sites, is the most common malware on Apple macOS.
Ubisoft Is Taking a DDoS Attack Subscription Service to Court By Nathaniel Mott Ubisoft filed a lawsuit against the operators of a site that sells DDoS attacks to people who need to cheat in popular games.
Report: Hacker Publishes Credentials for 500,000 Telnet Devices By Nathaniel Mott A hacker reportedly published the IP addresses, usernames and passwords of 500,000 devices accessed via Telnet.
Intel to Reduce Gen7 Performance Hit With Final Version of Graphics Driver Security Fix By Lucian Armasu Intel said it will reduce the performance loss seen by the Gen7 graphics driver after it patched a security vulnerability.
New Bill Seeks to Ban Intelligence Sharing With Countries Using Huawei 5G Equipment By Lucian Armasu The U.S. bill seeks to prohibit any kind of intelligence sharing with countries that adopt Huawei's 5G networking gear.
Cable Haunt Vulnerability Exposes Modems to Remote Attacks By Nathaniel Mott The Cable Haunt security vulnerability is said to affect the following Wi-Fi modems.
UK Intelligence: Stop Banking With Windows 7 By Lucian Armasu Windows 7 stops receiving security patches tomorrow.
Report: 1 Billion Medical Images Are Accessible by Strangers Online By Nathaniel Mott More than 1 billion medical images can reportedly be found online without a password by connecting to a doctors' office server.
Google Will Support Chrome on Windows 7 Despite Microsoft's Abandonment By Niels Broekhuijsen Microsoft might be abadoning Windows 7, but Google isn't ready to follow suit.
Amazon Accuses Honey Extension of Being a Security Risk By Lucian Armasu Amazon issued warnings to its customers saying the Honey browser extension represents a security risk and should be uninstalled immediately.
MalwareBytes Identifies 'Unremovable' Malware on US Government-Funded Phones By Nathaniel Mott MalwareBytes said it discovered unremovable malware on Android smartphones offered by a carrier, Assurance Wireless by Virgin, that receives funding from the U.S. government.
FBI Once Again Asks Apple To Unlock Encrypted iPhones By Lucian Armasu The FBI has sent Apple a letter asking the company to unlock two iPhones involved in the recent shooting of three Navy servicemen.
Google Project Zero Tests New Vulnerability Disclosure Policy By Nathaniel Mott Google Project Zero, the company's security team devoted to finding zero-day vulnerabilities in tech products, announced that it's going to be testing a new disclosure policy in 2020.
New 'Shambles' Attack Against SHA-1 Shows It’s Finally Time to Ditch It By Lucian Armasu Researchers from France and Singapore showed that cheap chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 signatures are now possible, and that the attacks are getting cheaper every year.
Cambridge Analytica Document Leak Exposes Mass Voter Manipulation By Lucian Armasu Brittany Kaiser has started leaking documents to the public that reveal the full breath and depth of the voter manipulation enabled by Cambridge Analytica in various countries.
Clop Ransomware Now Terminates 663 Processes Before Encrypting Your Files By Niels Broekhuijsen The Clop ransomware has reportedly evolved to terminate some 663 processes before encrypting files on target systems.
UK GCHQ Concerned Stock Exchange Outage Was Caused by Cyberattack By Niels Broekhuijsen GCHQ reportedly believes a London Stock Exchange outage was caused by a cyberattack, not a glitch in the exchange's software.
The California Consumer Privacy Act Went Into Effect This Week By Nathaniel Mott The California Consumer Privacy act went into effect January 1. The CCPA is like GDPR for California
Newly Demoed JackHammer Cyberattack Uses FPGA-CPU Combo to Attack Memory By Nathaniel Mott Researchers demonstrated new Jackhammer attacks that use FPGAs to compromise memory cells.
