Google: You can trust us with the medical data you didn’t know we already had
Google now has access to detailed medical records on tens of millions of Americans, but the company promises it won’t mix that medical data with any of the other data …
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Solved: Why in-the-wild Bluekeep exploits are causing patched machines to crash
Recent in-the-wild attacks on the critical Bluekeep vulnerability in many versions of Windows aren’t just affecting unpatched machines. It turns out the exploits—which repurpose the September release from the Metasploit …
Google enlists outside help to clean up Android’s malware mess
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Android has a bit of a malware problem. The open ecosystem’s flexibility also makes it relatively easy for tainted apps to circulate on third-party app stores or malicious …
One of the world’s most advanced hacking groups debuts new Titanium backdoor
One of the world’s most most technologically advanced hacking groups has a new backdoor that’s every bit as sophisticated as its creators.
Dubbed Titanium by the Kaspersky Lab security researchers …
Why 168,149 Valentine’s day text messages arrived in November
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Did you get a Valentine’s Day text message on November 7? If so, you can blame a company called Syniverse, which provides text-messaging services to major …
Ring-a-ding: IoT doorbell exposed customer Wi-Fi passwords to eavesdroppers
Enlarge / Ring’s configuration app sent Wi-Fi setup information unencrypted to some doorbell devices, exposing customers’ home networks.
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Ring has pushed out a fix to …
Members of violent white supremacist website exposed in massive data dump
Editor’s note: this article discusses a hate group’s uses of racist language that may be hard to read.
Private data for Iron March, a notorious website for …
AT&T switches customers to more expensive plans without asking them first
Enlarge / Poor piggy.
AT&T is adding $10 to the monthly bills of customers with certain grandfathered mobile-data plans and not letting them switch back to their older packages. AT&T is …
Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
Enlarge / While at Twitter, two men allegedly gathered data on users “of interest” to the Saudi Government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Department of Justice said in an indictment unsealed today.
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