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For the less technical
- Disinformation mash-up: MH17 and coronavirus
- South Korea’s health alerts expose private lives
- The future of facial recognition after the Clearview AI data breach
- How to stop your smart home spying on you
- FBI arrests Russian behind Deer.io, a Shopify-like platform for cybercrime
For the more technical
- The March 2020 security update review
- Windows SMBv3 client/server remote code execution vulnerability
- CVE-2020-0796, also nicknamed “SMBGhost” – a vulnerability impacting SMBv3.1.1 servers and clients
- VMware patches critical vulnerabilities
- Thousands of Netgear routers are at risk of getting hacked: What to do
- Exploring the security implications of AMD’s cache way predictors (PDF)
- LVI – hijacking transient execution with Load Value Injection
- Avast disables JavaScript engine in its antivirus following major bug + more information
- Avast Antitrack does not check validity of end web server certificates
- Google Authenticator for Android allows screen capture
- Cookiethief: a cookie-stealing trojan for Android
- Ryuk revisited – analysis of recent Ryuk attack
- A thorough research of the Maze ransomware
- Czech hospital hit by cyberattack while in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak
- COVID-19, info stealer & the map of threats – threat analysis report
- Who’s hacking the hackers: No honor among thieves
- 2020 Unit 42 IoT Threat Report
- New action to disrupt world’s largest online criminal network
- Darknet Reddit makes search engine for Darknet Markets
- Common encryption types, protocols and algorithms explained
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