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Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker

October 1, 2019 0 Comments acechemstore, Botnet, bulletproof, cannabis road, cyberbunker, Cybercrime, dark web, darknet, data center, data loss, Denial of Service, fraudsters, germany, hosting provider, Law & order, lifestyle pharma, malware, mirai, nato, netherlands, orangechemicals, organized crime, Server, Spam, spamhaus, traben-trarbach, wall street market

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:41:45 +0000

Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mdF0Y34b2RU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Checkm8 jailbreak and AltStore put cracks in Apple’s walled garden

September 30, 2019 0 Comments App Store, Apple, iOS, iPhone, jailbreak, jailbreaking, Mobile

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:57:37 +0000

People are taking different tacks to get around Apple’s tightly controlled phone rules.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wSp7NxeUhpU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Social media manipulation as a political tool is spreading

September 30, 2019 0 Comments computational propaganda, cyber troops, disinformation, fake news, global inventory of organised social media manipulation, hate speech, Law & order, political bots, politics, propaganda, public opinion, social media, Social networks, trolls, university of oxford

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:05:39 +0000

Researchers say ‘cyber troops’ in 70 countries are using it to automate suppression, mount smear campaigns, or spread disinformation.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-Wc88WInp-I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types

September 30, 2019 0 Comments .ace files, block list, cve-2018-20250, email attachments, file extension, malware, Microsoft, microsoft outlook, outlook, outlook for the web, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:56:21 +0000

Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9PAQW38fA1c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Is the era of social media Likes over?

September 30, 2019 0 Comments cyberbullying, dislike button, facebook, influencers, Instagram, like button, likes, social media, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:21:07 +0000

Instagram’s testing a program to hide the Likes that have created a toxic cyberbullying environment. Now, Facebook is as well.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OX4X4nRKm0M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week

September 30, 2019 0 Comments computer security, infosec, monday review, news, security news, weekly roundup, Weekly Summary

Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:43:30 +0000

From the fleeceware apps ripping off consumers to Microsoft’s emergency IE patch – and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/egy7cVEtECo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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‘Fleeceware’ Play store apps quietly charging up to $250

September 27, 2019 0 Comments Android, app scam, fleeceware, Google, Google Play Store, Law & order, Mobile, play store, rogue apps, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:16:56 +0000

SophosLabs researchers discovered at least 15 apps with millions of downloads charging extraordinary prices right under the Google’s nose.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/H5gANUVkXYM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple users, patch now! The ‘bug that got away’ has been fixed

September 27, 2019 0 Comments Apple, cve-2019-8641, Google, iPhone, mac, Patch, rce, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:13:21 +0000

Apple has now patched the patch that Google said didn’t patch the hole it was supposed to.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vMQXw1rIjGw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome cripples movie studio Mac Pros

September 27, 2019 0 Comments Apple, avid, Bug, chrome, Chrome browser, Google, Google Chrome, mac, Organisations, OS X, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:54:59 +0000

A few days ago, movie editors started reporting that Mac Pros running Avid software were crashing throughout Hollywood.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BZ_Snk9ZWg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google made thousands of deepfakes to aid detection efforts

September 27, 2019 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, deepfake detection, deepfakes, facebook, faceforensics, Google, Machine Learning

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:40:25 +0000

It’s an arms race: as detection methods improve, deepfake-generating algorithms are quickly updated to correct the flaws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-p47wfO19Ec” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>