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Users are sometimes tracked online despite no-track options Online profiles are accurate most of the time Large companies can build online profiles with little available data Advertisers can quickly identify users from their online profiles by using data collected from browsing history, new research from Mozilla showed. Despite the implementation ... Read More

Aggressive adware apps invade tens of thousands of devices Operators designed the apps to run unhindered in the background Google removed all of the fake apps from the Play Store Security researchers from White Ops have discovered and tracked a vast ad fraud botnet that used dozens of Android apps ... Read More

Botnet activity is on the rise in Q2 2020 Threat actors no longer interested in COVID-10 themes ZeroAccess botnet responsible for much of the current activity Threat actors have changed their attack vectors and other techniques and procedures (TTP), shifting from COVID-19 themes to more timely subjects like the Black ... Read More

EMV protocol is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack All VISA credit cards are affected VISA has to issue update for POS terminals Swiss security researchers have discovered a way to bypass the PIN authentication for Visa contactless transactions. A bug in the communication protocols lets attackers mount a man-in-the-middle attack ... Read More

Safari bug affects users sharing content Attackers can exploit the issue to steal files Details on the vulnerability are now public, Apple has no fix planned Security researcher Pawel Wylecial has found a Safari bug attackers could use to steal files from users’ devices. The bug is now known, as ... Read More

Smart homes are already here Cybercriminals look for IoT vulnerabilities Smart home security is a job for ISPs More and more people have smart homes these days, and the IoT industry's expansion will likely rapidly increase the number of smart homes. It's a situation that should make everyone happy, but ... Read More

A security researcher has found a database with almost 235 social media profiles scraped from the Internet, likely belonging to Social Data. Public user data is precious, and many companies want to gather it and sell it. Social media networks represent one of the best sources of this information. Many ... Read More

The FBI and Cybersecurity and the US Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory regarding a voice phishing, or vishing, campaign directly targeting employees working from home ... Read More

Microsoft has announced the first stages of the Internet Explorer 11 shutdown in a phase-out process meant to give users and businesses ample time to find other solutions. Simply removing Internet Explorer 11 from Windows is not an option, although that’s likely to happen sometime next year as well. Many ... Read More

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from the UK has removed more than 300,000 URLs linked to ‘quick-get-rich’ frauds that used fake articles from personalities to trick people into sending money to cybercriminals. The use of fake articles and quotes from famous people to send a bogus product is not ... Read More