Simjacker: Silly Name, Scary Game
Researchers have found a nasty new flaw in 1B+ mobile-phone SIM cards.
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Sysadmins Scramble to Secure 5M Exim Email Servers
A simple-to-exploit vulnerability in Exim needs patching on about 5M internet-facing servers. If sysadmins don’t patch—and patch quickly—they can expect their boxes to be quickly owned.
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Lock Him Up: Why Wyden Says Zuckerberg needs ‘Prison Term’
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blurts out his most outspoken criticism yet of Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO stands accused of lying to and hurting the American people. I’m not 100% sure those are specific crimes. But the good senator from the Beaver Stat… Continue reading Lock Him Up: Why Wyden Says Zuckerberg needs ‘Prison Term’
Retadup Botnet Killed by Cops – 1 Million PCs Saved
Last week, in a little-noticed announcement, French Police disclosed they’d disrupted a large malware command-and-control infrastructure, remotely disinfecting the PCs that connected to the C&C servers.
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Apple is Bad at Software, says Google
Google’s Project Zero is back, with some worrying criticisms of Apple’s software-engineering chops. The conclusions will surprise you.
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Apple Scrambles to Nuke Jailbreak, Fails Source Control 101
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 emergency patch: The issue was its own fault, caused by a source-code regression.
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MoviePass Spills Card Info and Passwords From Unsecured Database
Movie subscription service MoviePass is in hot water again: It’s emerged that a customer database was unprotected.
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Texas Does Ransomware Bigger: 23 Local Gov’ts Attacked
Another week, another 23 local governments crippled by ransomware, in what appears to be a coordinated attack.
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Busted: Kaspersky AV Tracks Your Every Click
Kaspersky Lab’s endpoint security products track your web activity. And it allowed any other website to track you.
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Screwed Drivers: Windows Third-Party Device Code is Huge Mess
Many Windows drivers permit malware to access anything, subverting controls that separate user space from the kernel.
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