Monthly Archives: June 2019

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Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget

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Samsung on Sunday sent out a tweet urging people to check their Sammy smart TVs for viruses – and then deleted the message, as if someone realized that highlighting the risks posed by connected TVs may be bad for business.

The Twitter […]

By |June 18th, 2019|Cyber News|

Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster. And are fighting to secure it

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Analysis In a mild PR blitz, Google engineers this month insisted the ad giant’s shake up of Chrome browser extensions won’t kill advert blockers. Instead, we’re told, Googlers are making the plugins safer. Those engineers have more work to do than it […]

By |June 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

RAMBleed picks up Rowhammer, smashes DRAM until it leaks apps’ crypto-keys, passwords, other secrets

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Bit boffins from Australia, Austria, and the US have expanded upon the Rowhammer memory attack technique to create more dangerous variation called RAMBleed that can expose confidential system memory.

The memory integrity issue tied to Rowhammer was known to Intel […]

By |June 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wondering where that upcoming meeting with ‘Cheap Viagra’ came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics…

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Spammers are abusing the preferential treatment Google affords its own apps to score free passes through Gmail’s spam filters, it was claimed this week.

The ad giant greases the wheels so that incoming messages involving Google Calendar and other Big-G […]

By |June 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

JavaScript tells all, which turns out not to be so great for privacy: Side-channel leaks can be exploited to follow you around the interweb

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Boffins from Graz University of Technology in Austria have devised an automated system for browser profiling using two new side channel attacks that can help expose information about software and hardware to fingerprint browsers and improve the effectiveness of […]

By |June 11th, 2019|Cyber News|

Worried ransomware will screw your network? You could consider swallowing your pride, opening your wallet

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As ransomware infections continue, conventional wisdom on how to respond to threats is going out the window.

The idea of agreeing to an extortionist’s demand, and paying a ransom to restore your company’s scrambled data, long considered a non-starter, is […]

By |June 11th, 2019|Cyber News|