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Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

| | children, Exploits, facebook, FBI, pornography, zeroday
This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which ...
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Critical Windows Vulnerability Discovered by NSA

| | certificates, cryptography, encryption, Exploits, maninthemiddleattacks, Microsoft, nsa, Windows, zeroday
Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates ...
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Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs

| | android, Apple, Hacking, iPhone, smartphones, Windows, zeroday
China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. This story broke in waves, the first wave being about the iPhone. Earlier this year, Google's Project Zero found ...
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Prices for Zero-Day Exploits Are Rising

| | businessofsecurity, economicsofsecurity, Exploits, Vulnerabilities, zeroday
Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit broker Zerodium said it would pay up to $2 million for zero-click ...
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