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Every Dell endpoint running Windows has a nasty remote-code execution vulnerability. The security hole is in the SupportAssist module.
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Today’s revelation that Huawei put backdoors into telecoms equipment is perfectly shocking. But is the story all that it seems? Yes, it’s Bloomberg again, trying to sound authoritative about security. But—some say—failing spectacularly.
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Amazon whistleblowers supposedly say thousands of Alexa team members can see your precise location. But just two weeks ago, didn’t the company pinky-swear they couldn’t?
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A widely-used Android app for finding free wi-fi passwords was horribly insecure. It’s been sitting on an unsecured back-end database, open to the internet.
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This story only gets worse for Facebook: Two weeks ago, I told you about how Zuckerberg’s firm was demanding some users enter their email passwords, so they can be “verified.” But now, further revelations make the situation look much, much worse. It a… Continue reading With No Permission, Facebook Slurped up ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Email Contacts
Hackers have been able to read the email of Microsoft’s free cloud customers. No password required. Yes, you read that right. Incredibly, the perps got away with it for almost three months.
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That story about the Chinese woman accused of unauthorized entry to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago? It gained a weird new twist this week. The Feds protecting the President supposedly found a USB stick and did the last thing you should ever do with an untrusted d… Continue reading Trump Secret Service USB OpSec FAIL: ‘Spy’ Story Gets Weirder
EU privacy regulator investigates Microsoft. Audits contracts with EU bodies for compliance. This comes after serious allegations that Microsoft Office’s telemetry features fell foul of GDPR.
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The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is stepping up its fight against Stalkerware. It’s asking for help from AV vendors, phone platform makers, and law enforcement. It’s time to put an end to it.
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Here’s Facebook’s latest unbelievable scandal: The company has been demanding that some users enter their email passwords, so they can be “verified.” That’s right, their EMAIL password.
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