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Android gets September update as price of flaws soars

September 5, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android 10, bug bounties, Google, iOS, Mobile, Operating Systems, Organisations, Patching, Project Mainline, security threats, Technologies, vulnerability, Windows

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:51:21 +0000

When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/xUkOcZUm9To” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android Debug Bridge (ADB), Android OS, Botnet, Google, IoT, Mobile, Operating Systems, Organisations, security threats, set-top boxes, WootCloud

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:07:32 +0000

Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YVYbkKJr18k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug

August 30, 2019 0 Comments blink, browser bug, chrome, Chrome browser, Google, Google Chrome, Organisations, security threats, vulnerability, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:34:24 +0000

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HwRH9qy2X3g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Emergency iOS patch fixes jailbreaking flaw for second time

August 28, 2019 0 Comments Apple, CVE-2019-8605, Google, Google Project Zero, iOS, iOS 12.4.1, iPad, iPhone, iPod, MacOS, Organisations, Patching, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:57:07 +0000

With iOS 13 nearing release, Apple users perhaps thought they were done with iOS 12 updates for good. If so, they were wrong.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tkCnj_wl2M4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GitHub joins WebAuthn club

August 27, 2019 0 Comments FIDO2, Microsoft, Organisations, two-factor authentication, Web Authentication, WebAuthn, Yubikey

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:33:09 +0000

GitHub is the latest company to support WebAuthn, a new standard that makes logging into online services using a browser more secure.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pL1_CDzIPLA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft won’t shift on AI recordings policy

August 16, 2019 0 Comments AI, Cortana, Microsoft, Organisations, Privacy, skype

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:27:57 +0000

Microsoft may have been caught red-handed letting contractors listen to sensitive conversations with its AI, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stop.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dwC94BWTtBI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Patch time! Microsoft warns of new worm-ready RDP bugs

August 14, 2019 0 Comments CVEs, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Organisations, Patch Tuesday, Patches, RDP bugs, security threats, Windows, worms

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:27:37 +0000

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday brought some bad news yesterday: more wormable RDP vulnerabilities, this time affecting Windows 10 users.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Bu9rFB1i64g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers

August 13, 2019 0 Comments chrome, Google, Google Chrome, Incognito mode, Jesse Li, Organisations, Privacy, Security researchers, Vikas Mishra, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:43:07 +0000

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DYQIHCGdjmU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox to pile on more native privacy features

July 23, 2019 0 Comments firefox, Have I been pwned, Mozilla, Organisations, Privacy, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:28:43 +0000

Mozilla is integrating its Lockwise password manager directly into the browser and expanding its support for the Have I Been Pwned website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/q-NknoPxSgU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>