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Fraud ring that resold customers’ Apple data busted by Chinese police

Chinese authorities have busted up a fraud ring accused of stealing customers’ Apple information and selling it online. On 7 June, police in the southern province of Zhejiang published a statement disclosing the arrest of 22 persons who are believed to have violated users’ privacy by illegally obtaining and selling their data. Those suspects gathered

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Cisco patches critical flaws in prime data center network manager

A debugging tool left on in deployments of Cisco’s large-scale data center management software could be remotely accessed and allow an attacker to run code with root privileges.Cisco made an update available that patches this and one other critical vulnerability in the same management software, the company said in an advisory published Wednesday. Read more

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Motorola Moto G4, G5 vulnerable to local root shell attacks

Researchers say several Motorola handset models are vulnerable to a critical kernel command line injection flaw that could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code on the devices. The two affected Motorola models are the Moto G4 and Moto G5. The warnings come from Aleph Research which said it found the vulnerability on

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Weeping Angel

WikiLeaks publishes the User Guide for CIA’s “Weeping Angel” tool – an implant designed for Samsung F Series Smart Televisions. Based on the “Extending” tool from MI5/BTSS, the implant is designed to record audio from the built-in microphone and egress or store the data. The classification marks of the User Guide document hint that is

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