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    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Date20 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    In yet another shocking admission by Facebook, the company said that not “tens of thousands” but “millions” of Instagram users were actually affected by the password leak that happened last ...

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    Google will block embedded browser log-ins to fight phishing
    Google will block embedded browser log-ins to fight phishing
    Date19 Apr 2019
    CategoryVendors/Products
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Embedded browsers within apps can be useful if you want to use an existing account from another service -- say, your Gmail log-in -- to access their features. However, they're also really easy to w ...

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    Security flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential conversations
    Security flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential conversations
    Date19 Apr 2019
    CategoryGovernment
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    The French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities. But Elliot Alderson, also known as Bap ...

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    IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville
    IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville
    Date18 Apr 2019
    CategorySecurity Projects
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated training.

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    What is a side channel attack? How these end-runs around encryption put everyone at risk
    What is a side channel attack? How these end-runs around encryption put everyone at risk
    Date17 Apr 2019
    CategoryCryptography
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Brute force attacks on cryptography could take billions of years, which no one has to spare. Maybe you live in a country where rubber hose cryptography is, shall we say, frowned upon. Hacking a tar ...

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    Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens
    Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens
    Date12 Apr 2019
    CategorySecurity Projects
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    ...

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    Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
    Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
    Date18 Mar 2019
    CategoryHacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he's selling on ...

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    Cryptographic crumpling: The encryption 'middle ground' for government surveillance
    Cryptographic crumpling: The encryption 'middle ground' for government surveillance
    Date19 Mar 2018
    CategoryCryptography
    Author Posted By Alex

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    Why the Firewall is Increasingly Irrelevant
    Why the Firewall is Increasingly Irrelevant
    Date17 Jun 2015
    CategoryFirewalls
    Author Posted By Anthony Pell

    ...

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    WPS Implementation Issue Exposes Wi-Fi Routers to Attack
    WPS Implementation Issue Exposes Wi-Fi Routers to Attack
    Date03 Sep 2014
    CategoryWireless Security
    Author Posted By Alex

    ...

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    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Date20 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

    In yet another shocking admission by Facebook, the company said that not “tens of thousands” but “millions” of Instagram users were actually affected by the password leak that happened last month....

    Read more
    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Facebook admits storing “millions” of Instagram passwords in plain text
    Date20 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

    In yet another shocking admission by Facebook, the company said that not “tens of thousands” but “millions” of Instagram users were actually affected by the password leak that happened last month....

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    Debian LTS: DLA-1758-1: debian-security-support update
    Date20 Apr 2019
    CategoryDebian LTS
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    debian-security-support, the Debian security support coverage checker, has been updated in jessie. The jessie relevant changes are: * Mark spice-xpi as end-of-life for Jessie.

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    Debian: DSA-4434-1: drupal7 security update
    Date20 Apr 2019
    CategoryDebian
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been found in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.or ...

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    Dist Fedora
    Fedora 29: wireshark Security Update
    Date19 Apr 2019
    CategoryFedora
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    New version 3.0.1 Security fix for CVE-2019-10894, CVE-2019-10895, CVE-2019-10896, CVE-2019-10897, CVE-2019-10898, CVE-2019-10899, CVE-2019-10900, CVE-2019-10901, CVE-2019-10902, CVE-2019-10903

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    Dist Centos
    CentOS: CESA-2019-0774: Important CentOS 6 java-1.8.0-openjdk
    Date19 Apr 2019
    CategoryCentOS
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0774

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    Dist Centos
    CentOS: CESA-2019-0775: Important CentOS 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk
    Date19 Apr 2019
    CategoryCentOS
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0775

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    Press Release: Guardian Digital Leverages the Power of Open Source to Combat Evolving Email Security Threats
    Press Release: Guardian Digital Leverages the Power of Open Source to Combat Evolving Email Security Threats
    Date21 Mar 2019
    You’ve Been Pwned! Best Practices to Prevent Your Email Account from Being Compromised in a Data Breach
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    Why Your Current Approach to Email Security May Not Be Enough
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    Debian LTS: DLA-1758-1: debian-security-support update
    Date20 Apr 2019 @ 08:09
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    Date20 Apr 2019 @ 07:08
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