BitLocker issues Only affected by users doing a clean install of Microsoft’s latest version of the OS It seems that Microsoft has dropped the ball on the security front, as the new autumn update for Windows 10, while introducing lots of juicy new features, unfortunately also messes up BitLocker encryption – at least for some […]
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It could be a merry holiday season for hackers, with millions of new and potentially vulnerable Internet-connected gadgets hitting the market. Security experts say the vulnerabilities of “Internet of Things” devices such as fitness bands, smartwatches, drones and connected appliances could be exploited as consumers adopt these products for the holiday season. Any connected device
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc said the point-of-sale systems at some hotels in North America were infected with malware, enabling unauthorized parties to access payment card data of some customers. The company said an investigation showed no indications that guest reservation or customer information, such as contact information or PINs, were affected. Starwood Hotels,
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Some news media sources had shared a video claimed from Anonymous declaring war against ISIS. This is the reply from Anonymous on a recent twitter post from @Anonpress. Alongside regular communications are documents and other information that can be useful not only in understanding how ISIS operates and plans their attacks, but also the nature of
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No one really knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is, but he is believed to be the anonymous inventor behind bitcoin. And now he could be up for a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Yes, the mystery man behind the digital currency that’s created so much stir has been thrown into the mix by economist Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor
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How hackers are trying to phishing amazon customers If you get an email like the one below, delete it. It’s phishing. Amazon has not suffered a data breach. Computer security firm F-Secure said Thursday morning that it has seen email spam telling users to verify their Amazon accounts following an alleged data breach. The alleged
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Imagine the internet that would offer you to communicate privately with anyone else without censorship, safe from the prying eyes of surveillance authorities…. … Decentralized, Encrypted, Peer-to-Peer Supported and especially a non-IP Address based Internet. Yeah, a New Private Internet that would be harder to get Hacked. This Internet is a dream of all Internet
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It’s no secret that websites typically send user data to third parties (typically without their knowledge or consent), but now new peer-reviewed research published by University of Pennsylvania privacy researcher and doctoral student Tim Libert shows that the scale of this is enormous—nine out of ten sites leak user data to an average of nine external
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Critical industrial switches used worldwide for automation contained hard-coded SSH keys that put devices and networks at risk. Advantech, a Taiwanese distributor, has developed new firmware for its EKI-122x series of products that remove the hard-coded SSH keys. SSH keys are a means by which computers authenticate one another without the need for a password. The
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From the 11 vulnerabilities found, Samsung already fixed 9 of them through their Maintenance Patch in October. But 3 of them remain. The good thing is that those two vulnerabilities that remain have lower severity. CVE-2015-7898 and CVE-2015-7895 require an image to be opened in Samsung Gallery, which does not have especially high privileges and is not used by
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