Mullvad As a kid, did you also assign each letter of the alphabet to another and write secret messages to your friends, perhaps even invisibly with lemon juice? Caesar or Atbash cipher is a great …
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Ars Technica A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source …
Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server Read More »
Tor Project Tor Browser 10.0.15 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version updates Openssl to 1.1.1k. In addition, Tor Browser 10.0.15 includes a bugfix for …
The Hacker News Researchers have discovered a new information-stealing trojan, which targets Android devices with an onslaught of data-exfiltration capabilities — from collecting browser searches to recording audio and phone calls. While malware on Android …
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ZDNet Apple has released an emergency update to patch a serious vulnerability (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212258) found in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. The patches are iOS 14.4.2, iPadOS 14.4.2, and watchOS 7.3.3, respectively. The vulnerability, discovered by Google’s …
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The Hacker News Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has released yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it …
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Bleeping Computer New malware with extensive spyware capabilities steals data from infected Android devices and is designed to automatically trigger whenever new info is read to be exfiltrated. The spyware can only be installed as …
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Bleeping Computer Email accounts of multiple German Parliament members were targeted in a spearphishing attack. It is not yet known if any data was stolen during the incident. The attack was carried out by sending …
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In 20 years of EU digital policy in Brussels, I have seen growing awareness and recognition among policymakers in Europe of the importance of open source software (OSS). A recent keynote by EU internal market …
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ZDNet Brazil is a world leader in phishing attacks, with one in five Internet users in the country targeted at least once in 2020, according to research. According to the report on phishing by cybersecurity …
The Register Indonesian officials have asked its nation’s citizens to stop leaking their own personal data on social media by sharing pictures of certificates attesting to their receipt of COVID-19 vaccinations. In a Tuesday press …