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Windows 10 updates released as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday appear to be making life hard for some printer users. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Microsoft promises to fix Windows 10 printer problem
Continue ReadingFraudulent Android app developers have been discovered trying to manipulate Google’s Play Store security by removing suspicious code before adding it back in to see what trips detection systems. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed More ad fraud apps found hiding on Google Play Store
Continue ReadingStop us if you’ve heard this before but a researcher has uncovered a new security vulnerability affecting many devices running the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Billions of devices affected by UPnP vulnerability
Continue ReadingThe Brave browser has provoked unhappiness among some of its users after being caught redirecting searches to affiliate links that earned it commission. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Brave CEO apologises for adding affiliate links to URLs
Continue ReadingVMWare’s VMware Cloud Director has a security flaw that researchers believe could be exploited to compromise multiple customer accounts using the same cloud infrastructure. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed VMware flaw allows takeover of multiple private clouds
Continue ReadingThe UK’s National Crime Agency has hit on a simple way to stop teens from being sucked into cybercrime – using Google Ads. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Crime agency turns to Google ads to deter teen DDoS hackers
Continue ReadingA critical security flaw in Android could be used by attackers to “assume the identity” of legitimate apps in order to carry out on-device phishing attacks, say researchers. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Android ‘StrandHogg 2.0’ flaw lets malware assume identity of any app
Continue ReadingHow many vulnerabilities lurk inside the open source libraries that today’s developers happily borrow to build their applications? Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Open source libraries a big source of application security flaws
Continue ReadingThis week sees the early arrival of Chrome 83 with a longer list of new security features than originally planned. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Chrome 83 adds DNS-over-HTTPS support and privacy tweaks
Continue ReadingIt’s not clear how many accounts were involved, but Microsoft is said to have made URLs and metadata available so admins can investigate. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Office 365 exposed some internal search results to other companies
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