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Sophos Mobile 9.5 and Intercept X for Mobile have launched!

January 14, 2020 0 Comments enduser, Intercept X, intercept x for mobile, Mobile, sophos mobile, sophos mobile 9.5

Credit to Author: Tom Hope PMM| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:11:02 +0000

Enhanced security reporting, Intercept X, Chromebook security, and more are here in Sophos Mobile 9.5.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/HJ2OryX0YvI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Windows 7 computers will no longer be patched after today

January 14, 2020 0 Comments Exploit, Microsoft, Patch, patchocalypse, vulnerability, windows 7

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:58:49 +0000

Today’s the day. The balloon goes up. The ship goes down. The patches fall behind. The crooks pull ahead.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5GCHHFgc5Rs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fleeceware is back in Google Play – massive fees for not much at all

January 14, 2020 0 Comments Android, fleeceware, Google, Google Play, play store

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:45:36 +0000

The apps itself isn’t malicious – the treachery lies in the payment model.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hTaSy5s-eoE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fleeceware apps persist on the Play Store

January 14, 2020 0 Comments Android, fleeceware, free trial, go keyboard, SophosLabs Uncut, subscription scam

Credit to Author: Jagadeesh Chandraiah| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:30:10 +0000

Fleeceware remains a problem on Google Play, where Android users still run the risk of being charged hundreds of dollars or euros for “subscriptions” to apps<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/LoJDdyoq4vs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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‘Cable Haunt’ vulnerability exposes 200 million cable modem users

January 14, 2020 0 Comments broadcom, buffer flaws, cable haunt, cable modem, Flaw, lyrebirds, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:41:45 +0000

A fortnight in to 2020 and we have the first security flaw to be given its own name: Cable Haunt – complete with eye-catching logo.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/xgn6q9BSap4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google tests biometric authentication for Android autofill

January 14, 2020 0 Comments Android, autofill, bad passwords, biometrics, Google, Mobile, Operating Systems, password manager, password security

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:31:33 +0000

Google is testing out a feature to make Android’s built-in password manager safer.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Bv2NtaVOe80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot

January 14, 2020 0 Comments anwar batson, automated password guessing, brute force, brute force attack, brute force tool, computer misuse act 1990, cracking, credential stuffing, daniel thompson, dark web, data loss, edwin salter, hacking tool, idris akinwunmi, Law & order, lottery, national lottery, password reuse, Privacy, rosegold, security threats, sentence, sentry mba, stolen credentials, uk, user credentials

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:18:57 +0000

We don’t care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MQxKTz5FL8E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft now reviewing Skype audio in ‘secure’ places (not China)

January 14, 2020 0 Comments audio, china, clips, Microsoft, Privacy, privacy policy, skype, voice assistants, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:51:15 +0000

A former contractor in Beijing: “It sounds a bit crazy now […] that they gave me the URL, a username and password sent over email.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MmxOcairoTY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook prohíbe los deepfakes, pero no los cheapfakes o shallowfakes

January 13, 2020 0 Comments actualidad, facebook, redes sociales

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:06:05 +0000

Facebook ha prohibido algunos vídeos manipulados, pero solo los que están hechos con tecnologías sofisticadas, como la inteligencia artificial (IA), de una manera que una persona normal no detectaría fácilmente. Lo que no prohíben son vídeos hechos con un simple software de edición de vídeo, o lo que los investigadores de la desinformación llaman “cheapfakes” […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/WvWokdzYeSs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1

January 13, 2020 0 Comments Cryptography, digital certificates, fake digital certificates, online privacy, pgp, pretty good privacy, security threats, sha-1

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:54:29 +0000

New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4sQ-pLfUpIU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>