The Register Cisco’s anti-spam service SpamCop failed to renew spamcop.net over weekend, causing it to lapse, which resulted in countless messages being falsely labeled and rejected as spam around the world. From what we can …
ZDNet I’m usually a bit cautious when it comes to recommending that people smash that update button the instant a new version of iOS is released. I do it, but there are times that I’ve …
Bleeping Computer A publicly exposed cloud storage bucket was found to contain images of hundreds of passports and identity documents belonging to journalists and volleyball players from around the world. These sensitive documents were hosted on a Microsoft …
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Bleeping Computer The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that the number of identity theft reports has doubled during 2020 when compared to 2019, reaching a record 1.4 million reports within a single year. …
US govt: Number of identity theft reports doubled last year Read More »
Ars Technica One of the Trump administration’s last acts in mid-January was to declare Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese military company.” The ruling from the Department of Defense (which is different from the Department …
Xiaomi denies ties to China’s military, calls US ruling “unconstitutional” Read More »
Softpedia Mozilla has announced that both Voice Fill and Firefox Voice Beta extensions would be retired, with the add-ons to be uninstalled automatically on February 19. The decision comes after the company decided to retire …
Mozilla Announces the Demise of Two Firefox Extensions Read More »
WIRED Believe it or not, GameStop stock wasn’t the world’s only story this week. The last few days have been tumultuous for cybersecurity as well, especially after revelations that North Korean hackers targeted security pros …
Security News This Week: Update Your iPhone and iPad Now If You Haven’t Recently Read More »
Naked Security Bug hunter Tavis Ormandy of Google’s Project Zero just discovered a dangerous bug in the GNU Privacy Guard team’s libgcrypt encryption software. The libgcrypt library is an open-source toolkit that anyone can use, …
GnuPG crypto library can be pwned during decryption – patch now! Read More »
Bleeping Computer The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is dealing with a ransomware incident that encrypted data and impacted two of its services, one offering information to subscribers and the platform for peer review of various …
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) suffers ransomware attack Read More »
Ars Technica The latest app to catch an illogical ban from the Google Play Store is Element, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted messaging client for the federated Matrix chat protocol. Google banned Element late Friday night, …
Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content” Read More »
ZDNet Google said today that a North Korean government hacking group has targeted members of the cyber-security community engaging in vulnerability research. The attacks have been spotted by the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), a …
Google: North Korean hackers have targeted security researchers via social media Read More »
9to5Linux The Mozilla Firefox 85 web browser is now available for download, ahead of its official unveiling on January 26th, for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows. Firefox 85 has been in development …
Mozilla Firefox 85 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New Read More »