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    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    The essence of most people’s regard for cybersecurity: we’re DOOMED.

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    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryNetwork Security
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    This should come as no surprise, but it still sucks big-time: thousands of people who downloaded a random, very popular app called WiFi Finder found that it got handsy with users’ own home Wi-Fi, ...

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    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryHacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    A security issue on the high-end Nokia 9 PureView smartphone allows anyone to unlock the device, using not only unregistered fingerprints, but even things like a pack of gum.

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    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryVendors/Products
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    A new set of antivirus tests conducted by AV-TEST show that Android users should not rely on Google Play Protect as their exclusive mobile security product.

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    These are the most commonly hacked passwords - is one of them yours?
    These are the most commonly hacked passwords - is one of them yours?
    Date21 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Hundreds of millions of internet users continue to put themselves at risk of having their accounts hacked by using incredibly simple and commonly used passwords which can easily be guessed by cyber ...

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    Linux Security Week: April 22nd, 2019
    Linux Security Week: April 22nd, 2019
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryLinux Security Week
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security ...

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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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    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryVendors/Products

    ...

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    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryHacks/Cracks

    ...

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    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

    ...

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    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryNetwork Security

    This should come as no surprise, but it still sucks big-time: thousands of people who downloaded a random, very popular app called WiFi Finder found that it got handsy with users’ ...

    Read more
    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Android Antivirus Tests Show You Shouldn’t Rely on Google Play Protect
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryVendors/Products

    ...

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    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Epic Bug Lets Anyone Unlock the Nokia 9 With a Pack of Gum
    Date22 Apr 2019
    CategoryHacks/Cracks

    ...

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    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

    ...

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    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryNetwork Security

    This should come as no surprise, but it still sucks big-time: thousands of people who downloaded a random, very popular app called WiFi Finder found that it got handsy with users’ ...

    Read more
    Ubuntu 3922-2: PHP vulnerabilities
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryUbuntu
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

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    Dist Redhat
    RedHat: RHSA-2019-0818:01 Important: kernel security and bug fix update
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryRed Hat
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CV ...

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    Dist Redhat
    RedHat: RHSA-2019-0831:01 Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryRed Hat
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System ...

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    Dist Redhat
    RedHat: RHSA-2019-0809:01 Important: ovmf security update
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryRed Hat
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    An update for ovmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS ...

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    Dist Debian
    Debian LTS: DLA-1761-1: ghostscript security update
    Date23 Apr 2019
    CategoryDebian LTS
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Cedric Buissart discovered two vulnerabilities in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which could result in bypass of file system restrictions of the dSAFER sandbox.

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