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Roundup British drone users will have to take a multiple-guess quiz before using their Christmas toys this year, while drone users appear to have, once again, got around pre-eminent drone maker DJI’s software-based flight restrictions. Read more

Iranian authorities have blocked Instagram and other social media platforms in response to a wave of street protests across the country this week. The clampdown has resulted in Tor users climbing from around 6k at the beginning of December to over 10,000 at the last count as citizens seek to circumvent the controls, according to

In August 2017, the Internet was flooded with leaks of the then ongoing Game of Thrones’ season 7. HBO was hit by a cyber attack in which about 1.5 TB of data from the server was leaked. It looks like the world’s favorite show is not going to have an easy job in the next

Malicious digital hijacking campaigns are being carried out by North Korean hackers according to reports. Two serious cases of hacking have been reported in a succession, by groups called Lazarus and Andariel. Let’s find out more about these incidents: Read more

A security researcher (@s1guza) has published the details of an unpatched vulnerability in macOS that can be exploited to gain full control of a system. The bug is a critical local privilege escalation (LPE) affects IOHIDFamily, which is a kernel extension designed for human interface devices (HID) (e.g. the touchscreen, buttons, accelerometer, etc.). Read more

In today’s world, no company is fully safe as even big names like Sony and HBO have been hacked, and quite recently Nintendo’s Switch had to go through the same fat. Nintendo’s most in-demand product for the Christmas season was the handheld console, the Nintendo Switch, which was hacked following the 34th Chaos Communication Congress

A breach of Forever 21 left consumer payment card data exposed to hackers, the retailer verified Thursday. The business didn’t specify how many customers had data stolen, but said the various point of sales computers were affected within April 3 and November 18, 2017. Hackers obtained credit card numbers, expiration dates, confirmation codes and sometimes

Alphonso, a startup that retails media-viewing data, provides a plugin that listens for audio signals in shows and movies. Approximately 250 mobile entertainments and social applications in the Google Play Store use it to produce targeted ads, according to News, a few of which include bland-sounding titles like “Pool 3D”, “Beer Pong: Trickshot”, “Real Bowling

Instruments in smartphones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability as researchers have found that data from these sensors could be used by hackers to guess the security password. Read more