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A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the U.K. for allegedly hacking into musicians’ websites and cloud accounts, then stealing and selling their unreleased songs. The investigation actually commenced “across the pond,” in the Manhattan District Attor…
Continue ReadingIn a couple of cases, your SIM card may present to a greater degree a security threat than your telephone’s software. AdaptiveMobile Security scientists state they’ve found another vulnerability, nicknamed Simjacker, that is being utilized to surveil i…
Continue ReadingThere are many ironies in the controversies over the status of Huawei, the Chinese technology giant in the crosshairs of the U.S. Justice department, and its related issue of the detention in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial office…
Continue ReadingA senior civilian employee at RCMP’s headquarters in Ottawa described as a fitness buff with a “brilliant” mind and extensive knowledge of cyber-security issues, particularly in Southeast Asia has been charged by his own force with violating national s…
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Facebook addressed a vulnerability in Instagram that could have allowed attacker…
Continue ReadingResearchers at a security firm named AdaptiveMobile Security have issued a report (via TNW) about a new vulnerability nicknamed Simjacker that uses your phone’s SIM card to spy on you. Because all makes and models of mobile phones can be used with Simj…
Continue ReadingASSOCIATED FILES: 2019-09-13-malspam-pushing-WSHRAT.eml.zip 42 kB (41,876 bytes) 2019-09-13-WSHRAT-infection-traffic.pcap.zip 19.3 MB (19,320,697 bytes) 2019-09-13-WSHRAT-malware-and-artifacts.zip 79 kB (79,061 bytes) NOTES: Zip archives are password-p…
Continue ReadingTwenty-year-old Frenchman arrested at Paris Airport on Monday for extorting tens of victims. Police in France have arrested a 20-year-old man for his role in blackmailing thousands of French and international users with so-called sextortion emails over…
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How Hackers Possibly Penetrate F-35 Fighter Jet – Guide to F-35’s Tech and Cyber…
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration is sanctioning three North Korean hacking groups widely accused of carrying out attacks that targeted critical infrastructure and stole millions of dollars from banks in cryptocurrency exchanges, in part so the country could fi…
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