This week’s news includes a Microsoft zero-day flaw and Yahoo’s recent email privacy snafu.
The Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news for the week ending on August 31. Topics covered are a Microsoft Windows zero-day, Yahoo’s recent acknowledgement that it scans emails to target ads to a report that mobile app SDKs capture private data when an Android or iOS app crashes.
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A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
In all, Nvidia patched flaws tied to 16 CVEs across its graphics drivers and vGPU software, in its first security update of 2021.
Despite being a mostly run-of-the-mill ransomware strain, Babuk Locker’s encryption mechanisms and abuse of Windows Restart Manager sets it apart.
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