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Russian Pleads Guilty to Running 'CardPlanet' to Sell Stolen Credit Cards

Image credit: Times of Israel.Aleksei Burkov, a 29-year-old Russian hacker, on Thursday pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges for running two illegal web…

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Citrix Releases Patches for Critical ADC Vulnerability Under Active Attack

Citrix has finally started rolling out security patches for a critical vulnerability in ADC and Gateway software that attackers started exploiting in the wild …

Citrix

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
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ProtonVPN Applications are Now 100% Open Sour

Are you a ProtonVPN user? Have you heard that ProtonVPN applications are now 100% open source?

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Weakening Encryption Could Impact Election Security, Coalition Sa

An election security group has said the Justice Department's renewed calls for access to encrypted data could impact more than privacy, stating:Â'Any effort to…

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Microsoft Disclose a Security Breach Affecting One of Their Own Customer Support Databases

While security breaches are common, the latest report relates to the tech giant Microsoft. Reportedly, Microsoft has disclosed a securityMicrosoft Disclose a S…

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250 Million Microsoft Customer Support Records Exposed Online

If you have ever contacted Microsoft for support in the past 14 years, your technical query, along with some personally identifiable information might have bee…

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Saudi Prince Allegedly Hacked World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Using WhatsApp

The iPhone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, was reportedly hacked in May 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal accoun…

AWS Apple

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ProtonVPN apps handed to open source community in transparency pu

ProtonVPN has handed over application code to the open source community in a bid to improve transparency and security standards.ÂÂ

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LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Why Artificial Intelligence Is The Smart Way to Form Real Bonds With Custome

AI isn't going to replace us, but it will make it easier to deliver services that keep people safe.

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Download: The State of Security Breach Protection 2020 Survey Results

What are the key considerations security decision-makers should take into account when designing their 2020 breach protection?To answer this, we polled 1,536 c…

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Chameleon Attack Can Manipulate Your 'Likes' On Social Media

Researches from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, have discovered a new cyber attack threatening social media platforms. TheChameleon Attack Ca…

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Popular Android Camera Apps Found Spying On Users

Researchers have found numerous popular Android camera apps stealing users' data and spying on them. Android Camera Apps Caught SpyingPopular Android Camera Ap…

Android

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Citrix Are Finally Patching The Critical Vulnerability Under Active Exploit

A critical Citrix vulnerability has shaken up the cybersecurity community over the last month. The bug that threatened numerous enterprisesCitrix Are Finally P…

Citrix

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BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems

Imagine receiving an email from US VP Mike Pence's official email account asking for help because he has been stranded in the Philippines.Actually, you don't h…

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Three Day Outage Prevented LastPass Users From Accessing Their Passwords

The popular password manager LastPass seemingly went through technical issues. While it is not yet known what exactly the problemThree Day Outage Prevented Las…

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WP Database Reset Plugin Had Some 'Easily Exploitable' Vulnerabilities

Another threat to WordPress sites has surfaced online. Researchers have discovered some serious security vulnerabilities in theÂWP Database Reset plugin.WP Dat…

WordPress

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The Performance Cost To SELinux On Fedora

FollowingÂthe recent AppArmor performance regression in Linux 5.5Â(since resolved), some Phoronix readers had requested tests out of curiosity in looking at th…

Linux

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Amazon's Ring blamed hacks on consumers reusing their passwords. A lawsuit says that's not tru

Are you an Amazon Ring user? Plaintiffs suing the company say they created unique passwords but were hacked anyway, and that Ring'sÂdevices lack widely adopted…

AWS

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Critical Bug In Two WordPress Plugins Risked Over 320K Websites

Once again, thousands of WordPress websites are exposed to security threats due to vulnerable plugins. Researchers have found a criticalCritical Bug In Two Wor…

WordPress

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Android Banking Trojan Faketoken Now Also Messages Premium Rate Phone Numbers

Amidst all the new malware that emerge every day, some old viruses also reappear after being revamped. One such exampleAndroid Banking Trojan Faketoken Now Als…

Android

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Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose fro…

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Kubernetes Launch Bug Bounty Program

Kubernetes has recently announced a much-needed step in the light of its popularity and the growing userbase. Reportedly, Kubernetes hasKubernetes Launch Bug B…

Kubernetes

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Facebook Will Notify Users When Logging In To Third-Party Apps

As announced, Facebook will now notify users while signing in to third-party apps. This will allow users to gain betterFacebook Will Notify Users When Logging …

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Microsoft Warns of Unpatched IE Browser Zero-Day That's Under Active Attacks

Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind.Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a…

Windows