A federal judge in New York on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a former CIA software engineer who was accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency’s classified hacking and tools and leaking it to WikiLeaks whistleblower website. While the jury was unable to reach a verdict on eight counts of the theft and transmission of CIA’s confidential documents, it did find ex-CIA Joshua
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All Intel processors released in the past 5 years contain an unpatchable vulnerability that could allow hackers to compromise almost every hardware-enabled security technology that are otherwise designed to shield sensitive data of users even when a system gets compromised. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-0090, resides in the hard-coded firmware running on the ROM (« read-only memory »)
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On the same day yesterday, when the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile admitted a data breach, the UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media announced that it has also suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,000 customers. What happened? Unlike the T-Mobile data breach that involved a sophisticated cyber attack, Virgin Media said the incident was
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Si vous receviez un courriel de l’Organisation Mondiale de la santé concernant l’épidémie de coronavirus, l’ouvririez-vous ? Téléchargeriez-vous des pièces jointes et cliqueriez-vous sur des liens pour obtenir plus d’informations ? Les cybercriminels pensent que certains, si ce n’est la plupart d’entre nous, le feront.
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The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon (pppd) software that comes installed on almost all Linux based operating systems, as well as powers the firmware of many other networking devices. The affected pppd software is an implementation of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that enables communication
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Cinq hommes sont jugés ce jeudi 5 mars au tribunal correctionnel de Rennes pour avoir diffusé des rencontres sportives illégalement sur internet en utilisant les images de beIN Sports, SFR et Canal Plus.
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More than 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related information on US residents were left exposed on a database that was accessible on the web without requiring any password or authentication. The exposed data — a mix of personal and demographic details — included the name, address, email address, age, gender, ethnicity, employment, credit rating, investment preferences,
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Let’s Encrypt révoque plus de 3 millions de certificats, en raison d’un bug dans leur logiciel de validation et d’émission de domaines.
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En combinant les outils de nettoyage et de configuration de CCleaner, le Bilan de santé permet aux ordinateurs personnels d’être plus rapides, plus propres et plus sûrs.
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The most popular free certificate signing authority Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke more than 3 million TLS certificates within the next 24 hours that may have been issued wrongfully due to a bug in its Certificate Authority software. The bug, which Let’s Encrypt confirmed on February 29 and was fixed two hours after discovery, impacted the way it checked the domain name ownership before
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