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Apple’s global security chief, 50-year-old Thomas Moyer, was charged with attempted bribery of police officers. He allegedly offered hundreds of free iPads to law enforcement officials in Santa Clara County, where Apple is headquartered, in exchange for concealed weapons permits for company employees. Between February and August 2019, Sheriff Lance …

The apps Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box, downloaded more than 6,000,000 times, were convicted of collecting user data and were removed from the Google Play Store last month. Palo Alto Networks specialists discovered problems in the applications and released a detailed report on their findings this week. According to …

Well-known cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported that cybercriminals are hijacking GoDaddy’s cryptocurrency domains. GoDaddy employees have been victims of social engineering attacks, and as a result, hackers have transferred control over the domains of several cryptocurrency projects. According to Krebs, the attacks began in mid-November this year. Employees of the …

Trustwave researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the GO SMS Pro android application, installed more than 100,000,000 times. Due to the bug, multimedia files (voice messages, videos and images) exchanged between users became available to anyone. “The GO SMS Pro application is a popular messenger app, and was discovered to …

Together with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, Microsoft has presented a “shared vision for the future of Windows PCs” in the form of the Pluton processor, in which security is built into the core itself, right into the CPU. Pluton will be used to protect personal data on Windows computers. The …

Independent information security expert Pedro Oliveira spoke about the CVE-2020-15647 bug, which he discovered in the spring of this year in Firefox for Android devices. Using a specially crafted HTML file, it was possible to steal cookies from the victim’s device. The vulnerability is linked with the way how Firefox …

Since April this year, Zoom has been protecting all conferences with a mandatory six-digit numeric password, and the developers have introduced this protection measure because of the so-called Zoom-Bombing. Now, in addition, Zoom will warn users about possible troll attacks. The fact is that before the implementation of this protective …

Today, after a series of the biggest scandals, in which got involved the IT community, GitHub has restored the library of the youtube-dl open source project. Let me remind you that this story began last month, when copyright holders from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) insisted on the …

Mozilla and Google developers have fixed critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Chrome browsers that recently discovered hackers at the Chinese Tianfu Cup competition. Let me remind you that the Tianfu Cup, the largest and most prestigious hacking competition in China, ended at the end of last week. In fact, the …

Bleeping Computer reports that the source codes for Cobalt Strike has been found in the public domain on GitHub. Hackers , from government APT groups to ransomware operators, for a long time loved this legitimate commercial tool, built for pentesters and red teams, and focused on exploitation and post-exploitation. Although …