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News in Brief Mar 9, 2015 19:45:18 GMT

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Fancy a cryptocoin miner with your Torrent client? "Foistware" back in the spotlight...

Ransomware Cryptowall makes a comeback via malicious help files

BandarChor Ransomware Infections Increase

HandBrake 0.10.1 Lands with x265 Update and Fixes for the Core Engine

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News in Brief Mar 10, 2015 19:03:44 GMT

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Seagate Decides to Patch Security Risk in Business NAS Devices, in May

Apple Fixes FREAK Vulnerability in Secure Transport

Apple Watch Giveaway Spam Clocks In on Twitter

MSRT March: Superfish cleanup

darktable 1.6.3 Supports RAW Images from More Canon and Panasonic Cameras

Firefox 36.0.1 Finally Available in Ubuntu Repos After Small Delay

Google Refuses to Fix Chromium Bug, Advises Users to Upgrade Past Linux Kernel 3.16

Apple’s New MacBook Will Need a Host of Adapters, Here They Are

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News in Brief Mar 11, 2015 18:10:41 GMT

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Glitch in Dropbox SDK for Android Links Apps to Attacker’s Cloud Storage

FREAK Risk Removed from Microsoft’s Secure Channel

80 percent of global merchants fail card data security tests

As easy as 123: Xen hypervisor bug found, fixed, phew...‏make sure you're patched!

“See who visits your Twitter Profile” Spam: Blink and you’ll miss it

Fake CS:GO Lounge Phishes Steam Creds, Drops Malware

Apache HTTP Server Vulnerabilities Closed in All Supported Ubuntu Systems

Google Security Engineers Again Help Microsoft Fix Software Vulnerabilities

Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance

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News in Brief Mar 19, 2015 16:41:06 GMT

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Apps in Google Play Subject to Human Review Before Publishing

Drupal Security Update Fixes Password Reset Flaw

Middle Earth Dark Market Scrambles to Steal Clients of Vanished Competitor Evolution

Ransomware Uses GnuPG Encryption Program to Lock Down Files

Dark Purple’s ‘killer USB’ will fry your computer’s circuit board

SMS Trojan Podec bypasses CAPTCHA on Android phones

Ransomware - should you pay?

Bank of America Phish Seeks Personal Data Bonanza

Rygel 0.25.3 Media Server Brings Server, Tracker, Renderer, and GStreamer Improvements

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Cinnamon and MATE Are Based on Debian 8 - Screenshot Tour

OpenSSH 6.8 Is a Major Release That Contains Numerous New Features and Bugfixes

New Device Claims to Crack iPhone’s Pin Code in Less than 17 Hours - Video

Why Is There a Chess Knight Icon on the Windows 10 Lock Screen?

More Microsoft Promises: Windows 10 Builds Once a Month, Spartan in Next Version

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News in Brief Mar 23, 2015 14:38:33 GMT

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CryptoWall Ransomware Also Adds Infostealer to Compromised Systems

Tails 1.3.1 Is an Emergency Release to Patch Critical Security Issues in Tor Browser

Final 4MLinux 11.1 Allinone Edition Is Now Available for Download with MakeMKV

Windows 7 Is No Longer Supported in New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Models

Microsoft Pledges to Keep Windows 10 Bloatware-Free

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News in Brief Mar 24, 2015 15:27:34 GMT

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Leaked Full Version of NanoCore RAT Used to Target Energy Companies

Jailbroken iPhones Unlocked with Software Brute-Force Tool in 14 Hours, Tops

Twitch Security Breached, Mandatory Password Reset in Effect for All

Firefox 36.0.4 Implements a Second Fix for Zero-Day Exploited at Pwn2Own

Sophisticated new breed of Point-of-Sale malware discovered

Scheduled Tasks

Hancitor Goes the Extra Mile on the Onion Route

CA Linked to Chinese Registrar Issued Unauthorized Google Certificates

How to Fix Metro Apps That Fail to Launch in Windows 10

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News in Brief Mar 25, 2015 16:54:50 GMT

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Kreditech Servers Breached, Data of Thousands Dumped Online

PacMan Ransomware Targets Danish Chiropractors via Well-Crafted Phishing

Vawtrak Trojan Hides Updated Server List in Website Icons

Yebot Backdoor Built for Wide Range of Malicious Operations

Sound Juicer 3.16.0 Officially Released, GNOME’s Default Audio-CD Ripper

Google Glass isn't dead. It's being fine-tuned for the masses

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News in Brief Mar 26, 2015 19:07:30 GMT

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Cisco’s IOS Patched Against Denial of Service Condition

13-Year-Old Weakness in RC4 Encryption Breaks SSL/TLS

Apple Customers Lured to Disclose Apple ID and Card Data

Microsoft Revokes Rogue Digital Certificate for Google and Other Web Domains

Installer hijack vulnerability threatens almost half of all Android devices

RadioShack to auction off customer data, violating own privacy policy

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News in Brief Apr 1, 2015 13:48:10 GMT

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Google Bans 192 Bad Extensions Affecting 14 Million Chrome Users

Anonymous Proxies Used for “Shotgun DDoS” Attacks

Crypto-Ransomware Sightings and Trends for 1Q 2015

Microsoft Admits It's Been Using a Modified Linux Kernel for Years

Opera 30 Web Browser Will Introduce a Real, Powerful Tab Cycler

Linux Lite 2.4 Officially Released with Support for Microsoft’s exFAT File System - Screenshot Tour

Blender 2.74 Out Now with New Tools, Add-Ons, and Dozens of Improvements

Deconstruct websites, get hired: hiding recruitment messages in source code

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News in Brief Apr 2, 2015 16:27:02 GMT

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DDoS Attack on GitHub Traced to Chinese Government

Google Pays $5,000 for Bug Allowing to Delete Videos on YouTube

Antivirus Live CD 12.0 Has Been Released, Promises to Protect Computers Against Viruses

How downloading one program can give you six (!) PUPs

Google clamps down on ad injectors after 100,000 Chrome users complained

Evolve OS Forced to Change Name Because of Stupid Trademark Held by UK Government

LibreOffice 4.4.2 "Fresh" Stable Officially Released, Upgrade Now

VirtualBox 5.0 Will Bring Disk Image Encryption, Paravirtualization Support for Linux and Windows Guests

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News in Brief Apr 7, 2015 14:01:30 GMT

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Dell System Detect Flagged as a Risk by Antivirus Product

NQ Mobile Vault Encryption App Uses Unreliable XOR to Lock Data

Word Documents with Scrambled Text Deliver Banking Trojan in the Background

Angler Exploit Kit Now Relies on More Successful Infection Tactics

Hacked nanny cam plays mysterious music to sleeping baby

Mozilla Working to Provide Tracking Protection in Firefox, How to Enable It

Tor 0.2.6.7 Fixes Security Issues That Could Be Used by Attackers to Crash Hidden Services and Clients

Another Windows Version Is Getting the Ax in 100 Days and Nobody Seems to Care

Ads on Windows 7 and 8.1 to Get You to Windows 10? Not So Fast

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News in Brief Apr 11, 2015 13:46:02 GMT

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New Shellshock Worm Seeks Vulnerable Systems at Tens of Thousands of IPs

Waski Downloader Delivers Dyre Banking Trojan to English-Speaking Users

Joint international police operation targets Beebone botnet

Popular Chrome extension turns out to be Spyware!

The mobile "security gap" - Pinterest and Yammer the latest gappy apps

VBS Malware Tied To Media Attacks

A history lesson brought to you by the Nuclear exploit kit

Ransomware: Return of the mac(ro)

KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 Officially Released with Plasma Framework Improvements

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News in Brief Apr 15, 2015 13:48:44 GMT

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HSBC Finance Corporation Exposes Mortgage Account Info

D-Link’s Security Patch for DIR-890L and DIR-645 Fixes No Issues, Hacker Claims

Chrome 42 Security Fixes Cost Google at Least $21,500

CoinVault Decryption Tool Available for Download

LG Split Screen software disables UAC

Interpol announces successful takedown of "Simda" botnet

Do Not Track: An Interactive Documentary Series

Real-Time Bidding and Malvertising: A Case Study

Booby-trapped Hugo Boss Advert Spreads Cryptowall Ransomware

“Business Support Giveaway” 419 Scam

Fear and loathing on Google Play: An in-depth look at today’s battery saving and cleaning apps

MSRT April: Unskal, Saluchtra, Dexter and IeEnablerCby

Bioazih RAT: How clean-file metadata can help keep you safe

Clonezilla Live 2.4.1-6 Now Supports Cloning of Disk Partitions Bigger than 16TB

KB3013769 Botched Update Causes BSOD on Windows PCs Running Kaspersky Software

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