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Is Your SmartTV Spying On You?
As if all the NSA surveillance nonsense wasn’t enough to put everyone on edge about covert snooping, a UK blogger has published information that appears to demonstrate that his LG Smart TV was transmitting data to internet servers about his and his family’s viewing habits, as well as information about USB devices and files attached
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Safeguard Your Smartphone Against Theft
The winter holidays are upon us, and with them comes the shopping, traveling and general merry-making. Law enforcement is also warning about the increasing rate of smartphone thefts as criminals take advantage of the increased distraction, armfuls of packages and winter clothing to abscond with devices they know most people carry and use these days.
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Viruses…in Spaaaace!
It sounds like the title of a wonderfully bad sci-fi B-movie, but it’s actually happened: the Internation Space Station is infected with a computer virus. Not only is it infected, it’s infected with a famous virus, Stuxnet, which was used to cripple (allegedly) Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Originally designed specifically for infecting Iranian nuclear power
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Another IE Zero Day Exploit in the Wild
It’s nice that Microsoft can keep guys like me busy. Luckily, exploitation of their latest zero-day weakness seems to be limited (so far) to an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack targeting users of a specific national and international security policy website. This particular exploit is being delivered in a traditional “drive-by” attack when users of
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New Microsoft Zero Day in the Wild
Microsoft zero-days seem to be happening so frequently, I’m running out of clever bon-mots to introduce these warnings. “What now?” I hear you ask. Users of Vista (Windows machines circa 2007) or Server 2008 (still in wide use everywhere) are affected by a vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Office 2003-2010. Let’s skip the gory technical
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Hacked Limo Co Exposes Customer Data
While analyzing the data trail of the recent, highly-publicized Adobe security breach and data theft, researchers also discovered data that appears to have been stolen from a prominent online broker of limousine and towncar services. Among the some 850,000 customer records discovered were such illustrious names as Donald Trump, LeBron James and Tom Hanks as
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