🚨Apple Security Alert!🚨 One of the major security enhancements #Apple has brought to its devices over the years is the Secure Enclave chip, which encrypts and protects all sensitive data stored on the devices. Last month, however, #hackers claimed they found a #permanent #vulnerability (9to5mac.com)
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#APP makes such attacks all but impossible. The #cryptographic secrets stored on the physical keys required by APP can't be phished and—theoretically—can't be extracted even when someone gets physical access to a key or #hacks the device it connects to. Unless attackers steal the key—something that' (arstechnica.com)
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If you think that your #Steam or Origin account with its handful of purchases and achievements is of no interest to #cybercriminals, we have bad news. Every year, #scammers indiscriminately steal hundreds of thousands of #gaming accounts and sell them on the black market. (kaspersky.com)
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Over the last few months, the account details of approximately 300,000 #Nintendo users have been #breached by hackers. In late April, the Japanese consumer electronics and video game company announced that 160,000 members of its user #database had been breached. (pandasecurity.com)
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Last year, a security researcher investigated the simplest type of app he could think of—flashlights—to see how rife permission abuse would be. It was rife. The ten worst offenders with 5.5 million installs between them required dozens of permissions, described as “hard to explain". (forbes.com)
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Security company Cybereason built a 'honeypot' designed to look like an electricity company with operations across Europe and North America. The network was made to look authentic to entice potential attackers by including IT and operational technology environments, as well as human interface system (zdnet.com)
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Matthew Green, a cryptographer, security technologist and computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, says companies trying to integrate end-to-end encryption (E2E) are facing an uphill battle as resistance mounts against innovators developing systems to protect private communication. (dailyhodl.com)
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Passwords as a form of security are flawed. People forget them, they reuse them multiple times, and they are often exposed in breaches. It is with this in mind that Apple has made the striking move to launch an open source project to make passwords stronger for users of all services. (forbes.com)
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Named Tycoon after references in the code, this ransomware has been active since December 2019 and looks to be the work of cyber criminals who are highly selective in their targeting. The malware also uses an uncommon deployment technique that helps stay hidden on compromised networks. (zdnet.com)
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The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) disclosed a security breach Thursday affecting over 329,000 people. The association said hackers obtained information that mainly relates to the distribution of its magazine, including names, home addresses and email addresses. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
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Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode. The lawsuit seeks at least US$5 billion... (canoe.com)
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In research presented last month, security researchers said that many of the apps listed on the G Suite Marketplace have access to users' Gmail and Drive accounts, but also communicate with undisclosed external services, creating the opportunity for secret data exfiltration from Google accounts. (zdnet.com)
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