Linux users warned to update libarchive to beat flaw

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:16:51 +0000

The bug is identified as CVE-2019-18408, a high-priority ‘use-after-free’ bug when dealing with a failed archive.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/r2L9Nrq5wnQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy?

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Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:03:16 +0000

A US-Japanese team published a research paper which confirms an interesting and under-estimated possibility – these devices will also accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light over distances of a hundred metres or more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_7WhfQGzceQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google patches bug that let nearby hackers send malware to your phone

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:42:47 +0000

Google has patched an Android bug that could have allowed attackers to use NFC to send over a malicious file to the victim’s phone<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9svl-4gT4-I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Have you updated your browser yet? Severe Chrome Zero-day vulnerability getting actively exploited

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:40:59 +0000

Attention! Are you using Chrome as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux and Mac? High time you update your browser!! That’s right. With Google recently releasing Chrome version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, there come’s an urgent warning, requesting billions of users to update their software immediately. The warning comes after…

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Gradient “celebrity matching” photo app sparks privacy fears

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:53:02 +0000

The Kardashians love the Gradient app – but they’re being paid to use it, whereas for you it’s the other way round. Is it safe?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cKna-7UcJBE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IBM tears into Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ claim

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:19:07 +0000

Is ‘quantum supremacy’ the moment that the rarefied world of quantum computing finally enters popular consciousness? Probably not.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KQ-hCfgul6U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Alexa and Google Home phishing apps demonstrated by researchers

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:43:57 +0000

The researchers’ “Smart Spies” apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2-76soYbixo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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5 big buts about the Pixel 4 phone

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0700

Look, I’ll just come out and say it: I’m a big believer in buts.

Now, hang on a sec: You haven’t accidentally stumbled onto the world’s last remaining Sir Mix-a-Lot fan site. (If only!) No, the buts of which I speak at this particular moment are the single “t” variety — as in, the contradictory kinds of statements that are so frequently missing when we talk about technology.

You know what I’m talking about, right? Here in these tribal times of 2019, it’s all too easy to fall into a pattern of seeing a certain sort of product or type of device as being either “awesome” or “inferior,” with little gray space in between those extremes. You’ve used this kind of smartphone for years now, damn it, so it has to be the best! And that other company’s devices are, like, obviously awful. They’re from the competing team! They could never be worth your while.

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Google chief warns visitors about smart speakers in his home

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:37:52 +0000

Rick Osterloh says he discloses smart speaker use when someone enters his home, and the products should probably do so themselves.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qRZbDKOCYpk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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