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
- Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S.
- Dublin’s tram service website taken offline after being held to ransom
- Data of 2.4 million Blur password manager users left exposed online
- ‘Town of Salem’ game suffers data breach exposing 7.6 million user details
- Suspect’s Twitter messages played role in NSA hacking-tools leak probe
- Hackers threaten to dump insurance files related to 9/11 attacks + more information
For the more technical
- Passive Google Dork – automate Google Hacking Database scraping
- Defeating the latest version of reCAPTCHA with 91% accuracy
- Dragon Sector wins CTFtime season 2018
- Top 10 bug bounty payouts of 2018
- RCE on the Marvell Avanstar Wifi chip SoC used in Playstations, Xbox and more
- The elite Intel team still fighting Meltdown and Spectre
- Adobe Acrobat and Reader security updates released for critical bugs
- Can’t unlock an Android phone? No problem, just take a Skype call
- Abusing Amazon Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
- OWASP Top 10 Internet of Things 2018
- The new landscape of pre-installed mobile malware: malicious code within
- [VIDEO] 35C3 Refreshing Memories – materials
- Malicious script leaking data via FTP
- New phishing tactic uses custom web fonts to prevent detection
- USB-IF launches USB Type-C Authentication Program
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