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For the less technical
- OUCH! Security Awareness Newsletter: Stop that malware (PDF)
- Russia’s active measures architecture: task and purpose
- Concerns about election bots, trolls and fakes in Mexico
- Hackers post protest messages on Iranian airport monitors
- Australian webcams hacked to make secret recordings, posted to YouTube, in online scam
- Facebook gave device makers deep access to data on users and friends
- Private Internet Access’ “no-logging” claims proven true again in court
- IPVanish “no-logging” VPN led Homeland Security to Comcast user
- To catch a credit card thief
For the more technical
- Nominations open for the Pwnie Awards 2018
- Your encrypted photos revealed in macOS cache
- F-Secure Anti-Virus: Remote Code Execution via RAR unpacking
- Adobe Flash zero-day leveraged for targeted attack in Middle East
- Zip Slip vulnerability
- Are your cookies telling your fortune?
- Reading your emails with a Read&Write Chrome extension same origin policy bypass
- A MitM extension for Chrome
- Major vulnerabilities in Foscam cameras
- Cisco ASA web services denial of service vulnerability
- Researcher successfully hacked in-flight airplanes
- Ransomware: Unlocking the lucrative criminal business model
- RedEye ransomware analysis
- VPNFilter exploits endpoints, targets new devices
- A totally tubular treatise on Triton and TriStation
- Post-tax season spam campaign delivers Ursnif to North American taxpayers
- BabaYaga – the self healing WordPress malware (PDF)
- Uncovering a sprawling crime ring
- IoT botnet C&C server accessible via default credentials
- Iron cybercrime group under the scope
- Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 victim machines
- Aussie firm loses $6.6m to backdoored cryptocurrency
- Extracting and analysing Significant Locations
- Analyzing TAR files with Elcomsoft Phone Viewer
- MyHeritage statement about a cybersecurity incident
- A large number of companies are publishing credentials via public Trello boards
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