Passive Authentication May be the Future for User Authentication, and it's Just Beginning to Appear
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Rokku Ransomware Uses QR Codes for Easier Payment
Ransomware creators are increasingly focused on making victims pay a ransom, and Rokku, a new malware family in this segment, is the latest example.
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iOS App Patching Tool “Rollout” Prone to Abuse
Researchers at security firm FireEye have analyzed another hot-patching solution for iOS applications that could be abused by malicious actors to turn harmless apps into malware.
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Establishing Correspondence Between an Application and its Source Code
How Combining Two Completely Separate Open Source Projects Can Make Us All More Secure
When you run an application, how can you verify that what you are running was actually built from the code that a trusted developer wrote?
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Path Traversal Flaw Found in ICONICS WebHMI
A researcher has identified a serious path traversal vulnerability in a web-based human machine interface (HMI) product from industrial automation software developer ICONICS.
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The Accountability Gap: Getting Business to Understand Security
A new survey and report from Tanium and NASDAQ, using a research team from Goldsmiths, University of London, seeks to quantify organizations' cyber security vulnerability.
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Panama Papers: Massive Data Leak Exposes Corrupt World Leaders and Tax Havens
2.6 Terabytes of Leaked Documents From Panama Law Firm Mossack Fonseca Expose World Leaders, Tax Havens and Shell Companies
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Researcher Gets $13,000 for Microsoft Authentication Flaw
Microsoft has patched a serious authentication vulnerability that could have been exploited to gain access to Outlook, Azure and Office accounts, a researcher reported over the weekend.
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Romanian Hacker “Guccifer” Appears in U.S. Court
Marcel Lazar Lehel, the 44-year-old Romanian national accused of hacking into the online accounts of many public figures, has been extradited to the United States where he made his first court appearance last week.
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The Terrorist Justification for Mass Surveillance
The UK government's attempts to ease the passage of the hugely controversial Investigative Powers Bill continued this week with a Telegraph opinion piece from William Hague (former First UK Secretary of Sate and former leader of the Conservative Party): The Brussels attacks show the need to crack terrorist communications.
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