Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- OUCH! newsletter: Search yourself online (PDF)
- Anonymized data doesn’t stay anonymous, says MIT study
- Singapore Airlines ‘glitch’ exposes personal data on 285 frequent flyers
- How cartographers for the U.S. Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa
- Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it
- German police seek help in finding parcel bomber with MAC address
- Wife of one of Norway’s richest likely kidnapped for crypto ransom
- Hamas says botched Israeli Gaza raid aimed to bug communications
- DEA agent linked to Colombian money laundering scheme, prosecutors say
- The sounds that haunted U.S. diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn crickets, scientists say
- Facebook-executive swatting sends significant police response to his home
- Facebook knows how to track you using the dust on your camera lens
- I gave a bounty hunter $300. Then he located our phone
- Zerodium offers to buy zero-day exploits at higher prices than ever
- Secret Service: Theft rings turn to Fuze Cards
For the more technical
- Page cache attacks (PDF)
- PHA family highlights: Zen and its cousins
- Adware disguised as game, TV, remote control apps infect 9 million Google Play users
- A Zebrocy Go downloader
- Android Security Bulletin – January 2019
- The January 2019 security update review
- Your Exchange server can be pwned by an email (and other bugs need fixing)
- Windows DHCP client remote code execution vulnerability
- System Down: A systemd-journald exploit
- XSS in Steam react chat client
- A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
- Think you are just watching a video? Think again!
- Report into the cyber attack on Singapore Health Services Private Limited Patient Database
- Tracking the Hide and Seek Botnet
- Another Ethereum hard fork turns out to be a scam
- Ethereum Classic (ETC) is currently being 51% attacked
- Ryuk ransomware attacks businesses over the holidays
- SiliVaccine: Inside North Korea’s anti-virus
- Security nuances of AWS Glue, CodeBuild and S3 services
- NSA to open source its reverse engineering tool + more information
- Metasploit Framework 5.0 released
- Mathematicians seal back door to breaking RSA encryption
- Security researcher cracks Google’s Widevine DRM
- A YubiKey for iOS Will soon free your iPhone from passwords
- New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
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