Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the researchers who last year showed that cars can be remotely hijacked, are back with a new demonstration, and this time they managed to take over a vehicle’s acceleration, brakes and steering.
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Firefox Adds Improved Download Protection
Mozilla on Monday announced that download protection in Firefox 48 has ben expanded to include potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads.
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Google Patches Tens of Critical Vulnerabilities in Android
Google on Monday announced new security patches for the Android operating system, focusing mainly on resolving a series of critical bugs in drivers, some that had been reported years ago.
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Kaspersky in Search of Hackers for New Bug Bounty Program
Kaspersky Lab Launches New Bug Bounty Program on HackerOne Platform
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Evidence Links Russia to Second Democratic Party Hack
Researchers from two security firms have uncovered evidence linking a Russian threat actor to the cyberattack targeting the U.S. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
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Android Trojan Downloaded Over 2.8 Million Times via Google Play
A newly spotted Android Trojan managed to infect over 150 applications in Google Play, for a total of more than 2.8 million downloads, Doctor Web security researchers warn.
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Barclays Unveils Voice Authentication for Phone Banking
Nuance Powers New Telephone Banking Voice Authentication System for Barclays
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Neutrino Campaign Switches From CryptXXX to Locky Ransomware
A long-running exploit kit (EK) campaign has recently switched to distributing the Locky ransomware via the Neutrino EK, Palo Alto Networks researchers reveal.
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Vulnerabilities Found in Black Hat Conference App
Organizers of the Black Hat conference have updated the event’s iOS and Android applications after researchers at mobile security firm Lookout discovered several flaws that could have been exploited to impersonate users and spy on them.
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Microsoft Disables SwiftKey’s Cloud Sync to Prevent Data Leaks
Microsoft recently disabled the cloud sync feature in SwiftKey after an issue resulted in user details being displayed to other people.
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