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News in Brief Apr 23, 2016 13:58:23 GMT

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Opera's VPN Is Just a Proxy, Developer Says

Old Black Hat SEO Technique Used to Deliver Spam

Malware Coders Find the Perfect Technique to Help RATs Avoid Detection

Dutch Police Shuts Down Blackberry PGP-Based Mobile Network

Windows AppLocker Bypass Allows Attackers to Registers DLLs Off the Internet

   New CryptoBit Ransomware Could Be Decryptable

RansomWhere Is a Mac App to Detect Crypto-Ransomware on OS X

   New PWOBot Python Malware Can Log Keystrokes, Mine for Bitcoin

   New CryptXXX Ransomware Locks Your Files, Steals Bitcoin and Local Passwords

Tech Support Scammers Bring Back FakeAV

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News in Brief Apr 26, 2016 13:59:14 GMT

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Ransomware Can Infect Android Devices Without Any User Interaction

Flash Accounted for All Top 10 Vulnerabilities Used by Exploit Kits in 2015

Windows PowerShell and Google Docs Abused to Spread Laziok Trojan

Ransomware in your inbox: the rise of malicious JavaScript attachments

Debian GNU/Linux 7 "Wheezy" Has Become an LTS Release, Supported Until May 2018

GNOME Software Package Manager Prepares for GNOME 3.22, Gets Steam Support

Shotwell 0.23.0 Is the First Major Release in a Year, Comes with a Warning

Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Now Available for Download with GTK3 Integration for Linux

Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 Officially Released, PINE64 Port Coming Soon

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Officially Released for Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 2

Ubuntu-Based Black Lab Linux 7.6 Released with Xfce 4.12 and LibreOffice 5.1.2

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News in Brief Apr 28, 2016 14:00:30 GMT

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Former Tor Developer Helped the FBI by Creating Malware to Go After Tor Users

Fake LastPass Chrome Extension Found on the Google Web Store

Creepy Adware Uses Custom Firefox Profile to Hijack Your Browser

Cisco Accuses French Software Maker of Installing Backdoors on 12M Computers

NTP Daemon Gets Fixes for Vulnerabilities Causing DoS and Authentication Bypass

RuMMS Android Malware Attacks via SMS Spam, Steals Money from Bank Accounts

GParted 0.26.0 Launches with Read-Only Support for LUKS Encrypted Filesystems

Parted Magic 2016_04_26 Drops Chrome, Adds Support for Secure Erasing NVMe SSDs

Tails 2.3 Anonymous Live CD Gets Tor Browser 5.5.5, Tails 2.4 Coming June 7

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News in Brief May 2, 2016 14:08:37 GMT

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Toy Maker Maisto Unwittingly Serves Up CryptXXX Ransomware

Third Party Patch Roundup – April 2016

Git 2.8.2 Popular Source Code Management System Released with Over 18 Bug Fixes

Arch Linux 2016.05.01 Is Now Available for Download, Includes Linux Kernel 4.5.1

Debian-Based GParted Live 0.26.0 Is Out with Linux Kernel 4.5 and GParted 0.26.0

BlackArch Linux Now Provides over 1,400 Penetration Testing Tools, New ISO Lands

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News in Brief May 3, 2016 17:04:56 GMT

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US Law Change Allows Police to Search PCs of VPN, Tor & Malware-Infected Users

PwnedList Shuts Down Because of Security Bug That Exposed Details for 866M Users

Microsoft Moves to Deprecate SHA-1 Certificates in Edge and Internet Explorer

Car hackers could get a life sentence under proposed anti-hacking law

Here's How to Dual Boot ubuntuBSD with Microsoft Windows

VLC Media Player 2.2.3 Improves MKV Tags Support, Fixes WMV Regression

Vivaldi 1.1 Web Browser Receives the Latest Chromium 50 Security Updates, Fixes

IPFire 2.19 Core Update 101 Patches Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerability in Web UI

pfSense 2.3 Open-Source BSD Firewall Gets Patch That Fixes NTP Security Issues

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News in Brief May 4, 2016 13:49:30 GMT

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ImageTragick Exploit Used in Attacks to Compromise Sites via ImageMagick 0-Day

Google Turns HTTPS On by Default for All Blogger Sites

Stored XSS Bug Affects All bbPress WordPress Forum Versions

How to Install Cinnamon 3.0 Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu Tweak Is Now Officially Dead and Buried

openSUSE Tumbleweed Prepares for GCC 6, Users Get Linux Kernel 4.5.2, Mesa 11.2

CoreOS Linux 899.17.0 Released with OpenSSL 1.0.2h, NTPd 4.2.8p7, and Git 2.7.3

Black Lab Brings Real-Time Kernel Patching to Its Enterprise Desktop 8 Linux OS

Beautiful Simplicity Linux 16.04 OS Arrives, Based on LXPup and the LXDE Desktop

Opera Browser’s Ad Blocker Now Available for Stable Desktop and Android Versions

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News in Brief May 10, 2016 14:27:30 GMT

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SS7 Attack Leaves WhatsApp and Telegram Encryption Useless

FTC Orders Apple, Google, Microsoft, Others to Reveal Mobile Security Practices

Blogger, CBS, PerezHilton Hit by Malvertising Campaigns

CryptXXX Is Now Undecryptable, Prevents Users from Accessing Their PC

Highly Dangerous Trojan Found in Apps on the Google Play Store

Researchers Create Self-Propagating Worm That Targets SCADA Equipment

Lost Door Remote Access Trojan Distributed via Facebook, YouTube, Blogspot

Torrenty Windows 10 App Removed from Windows Store After Pushing Adware

Bucbi Ransomware Makes a Comeback After Two Years

The Hunt For Tech Support Scammers

Security Sense: When a Security Researcher is Arrested, There’s Usually a Good Reason

Black Lab Software Announces Black Lab Cloudbook PC as a Chromebook Replacement

Mesa 11.1.4 Is the Last in the Series, Users Are Urged to Migrate to Mesa 11.2

Solus to Offer Users a Brand-New and Modern Graphical Package Manager

AryaLinux 2016.04 Lands as a Stable OS Built from Scratch with the MATE Desktop

gNewSense 4.0 Promises a Solid Debian-Based Linux OS with 100% Free Software

Linux AIO Lets You Have All the Debian 8.4 Live Editions on a Single ISO Image

Say No to "Get Windows 10" and Get Rid of GWX Once and for All

New Windows 10 Cumulative Updates Launching Today

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News in Brief May 20, 2016 13:40:00 GMT

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Ubiquiti AirOS Routers Hit with Worm Attacks

Scientists Find New Way to Generate Random Numbers, Encryption Could Get a Boost

TeslaCrypt Ransomware Project Appears to Shut Down, Offers Free Decryption Key

Tech Support Scam Blurs the Line with Ransomware, Locks Users' Computers

Google Drops SSLv3 and RC4 Support in Gmail

Pinguy OS Developer Wants to Pull the Plug on His Ubuntu-Based Operating System

New Tool Promises to Help You Create Your Own Arch Linux Package Repositories

Calibre 2.57 eBook Management Software Adds Driver for the BQ Cervantes 3 Reader

Enlightenment 0.20.8 Desktop Environment Makes Startup Apps Work Again

pfSense 2.3 BSD Firewall Gets Its First Major Update with over 100 Changes

Krita 3.0 Open-Source Digital Painting Tool Is Around the Corner, RC1 Out Now

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News in Brief May 23, 2016 13:03:24 GMT

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Nine Days Later, Flash Zero-Day CVE-2016-4117 Already Added to Exploit Kits

Crooks Used SQL Injections to Hack Drupal Sites and Install Fake Ransomware EXCLUSIVE

Ransomware Adds DDoS Capabilities to Annoy Other People, Not Just You

Antivirus Live CD 18.0-0.99.2 Uses ClamAV 0.99.2 to Clean Your PCs of Viruses

BeagleBone Green Wireless, a Raspberry Pi 3 Competitor, Ships with Built-in WiFi

Tiny Core Linux 7.1 Operating System Officially Released with BusyBox 1.24.2

Solus Operating System Now Provides Out-of-the-Box Support for 32-Bit Apps

Manjaro Linux 16.06 "Daniella" RC1 Gets First Update with Latest ZFS on Linux

Meet Fancy, a Tiny Computer Running Chromium OS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Android TV

Here's How to Install the ubuntuBSD Operating System Using a USB Flash Drive

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News in Brief May 24, 2016 14:23:02 GMT

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FBI Warns Against Wireless Keystroke Loggers Disguised as USB Chargers

Pastejacking Attack Overrides Your Clipboard to Trick You into Running Evil Code

Identity Testing Attacks Are the Latest Trend in Hacking Circles

DMA Locker 4.0 May Be the Next Big Thing in Terms of Ransomware

Campaign Spamming Windows Script Files Is Spreading Cerber Ransomware

CYBER.POLICE Android Ransomware still on patrol…

Tech Support Scammers using Winlogon

Linux Kernel 3.12.60 LTS Released with ARM and PowerPC Fixes, Updated Drivers

Rygel Open-Source Media Server Gets Hack to Support AVI Playback on Philips TVs

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News in Brief Jun 1, 2016 14:31:30 GMT

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Samsung KNOX BYOD Tools Plagued by Three Security Bugs

"Deploy on Heroku" Buttons Lead to Complete Pwnage of Heroku Accounts

Scrum.org Hacked, Company Blames Software Supplier