Security Bits – 1 June 2019
…— www.wsj.com/… Suggested Reading PSAs, Tips & Advice 🇺🇸 Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Legal Threats Make Powerful Phishing Lures — krebsonsecurity.com/… What…
…— www.wsj.com/… Suggested Reading PSAs, Tips & Advice 🇺🇸 Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Legal Threats Make Powerful Phishing Lures — krebsonsecurity.com/… What…
…www.zdnet.com/… Google And Facebook Secretly Track Your Activity On Porn Sites, Microsoft Reports — www.forbes.com/… Tinder Bypasses Google Play Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee — www.bloomberg.com/… Israeli Security Firm…
…– www.imore.com/… According to numbers form the FBI, US companies lost $2.3Bn to CEO email scams (a form of spear-phising) over the past 3 years – krebsonsecurity.com/… A experiment by…
…web — www.blog.google/… A good writeups TMO & iMore — www.macobserver.com/… & www.imore.com/… Opinion: John Gruber’s take — daringfireball.net/… Google defends tracking cookies—some experts aren’t buying it — arstechnica.com Deconstructing…
…FTP in the 21st century, but we do, and, we also still use SMTP, POP3, and IMAP, despite their inherent insecurity. We have put some bandaids onto these old protocols,…
…is gone” Facebook phishing posts — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Trello API abused to link email addresses to 15 million accounts — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (The big danger is automated, credible, targeted phishing attacks, so…
…to major sites like weather.com and thedrudgereport.com this month – http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/my-browser-visited-drudgereport-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-malware/ RELATED: Starting form September, Amazon will no longer accept flash ads – http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/flash-gets-another-death-sentence-this-time-from-amazon Jeb Bush comes out against encryption…
…— bugs.chromium.org/… Google Finds Severe macOS Kernel Flaw — www.macobserver.com/… Google reveals BuggyCow macOS security flaw — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Google Reveals “BuggyCow,” a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability | WIRED — www.wired.com/……
…www.computerworld.com/… 10 Things You Shouldn’t Do on Your Work Computer (or Phone) — www.intego.com/… Ask iFixit: I Spilled Liquid on My Laptop—Now What? — www.ifixit.com/… Interesting Insights High-quality opinion and…
…Office patches are also for Mac users – krebsonsecurity.com/…, arstechnica.com/… & www.intego.com/… Adobe released a separate patch to Flash to fix a zero-day bug being actively exploited – nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… If…