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Understanding how to buy bitcoins and pay ransomware authors for decryption keys is hard enough, yet some cybercriminals now expect their victims to do it in under an hour if they want all of their files back.A new ransomware program dubbed Jigsaw e… Continue reading Jigsaw crypto-ransomware deletes more files the longer you delay paying
Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals.Petya appeared on researchers’ radar last month when criminals distributed it t… Continue reading Experts crack Petya ransomware, enable hard drive decryption for free
Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals.Petya appeared on researchers’ radar last month when criminals distributed it t… Continue reading Experts crack Petya ransomware, enable hard drive decryption for free
Website hosting platform Wordpress.com will automatically enable HTTPS for all the custom domain names that its users have associated with their websites.Run by Automattic, WordPress.com allows users to easily create and manage websites based on the… Continue reading WordPress.com turns on default encryption for hosted domains
Website hosting platform Wordpress.com will automatically enable HTTPS for all the custom domain names that its users have associated with their websites.Run by Automattic, WordPress.com allows users to easily create and manage websites based on the… Continue reading WordPress.com turns on default encryption for hosted domains
Security researchers have found that a patch released by IBM three years ago for a critical vulnerability in its own Java implementation is ineffective and can be easily bypassed to exploit the flaw again.The broken patch was discovered by researche… Continue reading Three-year-old IBM patch for critical Java flaw is broken
Security researchers have found that a patch released by IBM three years ago for a critical vulnerability in its own Java implementation is ineffective and can be easily bypassed to exploit the flaw again.
The broken patch was discovered by researc… Continue reading Three-year-old IBM patch for critical Java flaw is broken
Google has released one of the largest Android monthly security updates, fixing a total of 39 vulnerabilities — 15 rated critical, including four that can lead to a complete device compromise.
The patches, which are included in new firmware images that were released Monday for the company’s Nexus devices, will also be published to the Android Open Source Project over the next 24 hours.
They include a fix for a vulnerability that Google warned about two weeks ago and which is already being exploited by a publicly available rooting application. Tracked as CVE-2015-1805, the privilege escalation flaw was originally fixed in the Linux kernel in April 2014, but it didn’t become clear until February this year that it also affects Android.
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Google has released one of the largest Android monthly security updates, fixing a total of 39 vulnerabilities — 15 rated critical, including four that can lead to a complete device compromise.
The patches, which are included in new firmware images that were released Monday for the company’s Nexus devices, will also be published to the Android Open Source Project over the next 24 hours.
They include a fix for a vulnerability that Google warned about two weeks ago and which is already being exploited by a publicly available rooting application. Tracked as CVE-2015-1805, the privilege escalation flaw was originally fixed in the Linux kernel in April 2014, but it didn’t become clear until February this year that it also affects Android.
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Continue reading Google fixes 39 Android flaws, some allow hackers to take over your phone
Security researchers have expanded and improved a three-year-old attack that exploits the compression mechanism used to speed up browsing in order to recover sensitive information from encrypted Web traffic.
The attack, known as BREACH, takes advan… Continue reading HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk