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More than half of the world’s top sites suffer from misconfigured email servers, something that heightens the risk of having spoofed emails sent from their domains, researchers warn.
For the last month attackers have been using a combination of phishing and typosquatting in order to carry out a Bitcoin phishing campaign.
Taiwanese electronics company Acer sent letters to customers indicating that some of their financial information – credit card data included – may have been accessed over the last year.
At last week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, explains whether this a big deal and how the upgrades address some problems he’d disclosed to Apple.
Google announced that it paid just north of half a million dollars to security researchers as part of the first year of its Android Security Rewards program.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, and another Flash zero day.
Privacy experts are arguing this week the FBI isn’t doing enough to safeguard the treasure trove of facial recognition photos in its possession.
Like macros before it, attackers have been placing malicious code alongside object linking and embedding (OLE) code, along with well-formatted text and images, to spread malware and ransomware.
Microsoft pushed out 16 bulletins on Tuesday, addressing 44 different vulnerabilities in its software, including Windows, Exchange Server, Office, Edge, and Internet Explorer.
Researchers this week claim they’ve noticed a new strain of ransomware unlike any they’ve seen prior – a type composed entirely of JavaScript.
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