Security researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa have found new vulnerabilities that can be used to track a victim’s real-time location, spoof emergency alerts or silently disconnect a phone from the 5G …
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Author: Andrea Fortuna
A glitch on Facebook App’s UI reveals a weird camera activity
UPDATE 2019/11/14: Facebook released version 247.0 that fixes the glitch. Joshua Maddux published on his Twitter account a video captured from an iPhone running iOS 13.2.2: in this video, a glitch in the interface of …
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The myths of VPNs
Some days ago, a group of servers belonging to multiple VPN providers has been breached.After this events, many people have expressed doubts about the real usefulness of VPNs.
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My Weekly RoundUp #115
Over the past seven days, i’ve read a lot of interesting news.
So, today let’s talk about the BerlusconiMarket shutdown, LulSecITA and FifthOfNovember, ransomware attack on a hospital, GoLang birthday, Apple vs. Electron, EA and VisualStudio, GraphQL, strange naming policies for tech products.
Then, some Facebook related news (new brand, data leaks and facial recognition) and a couple of link focused on science, about Fabiola Gianotti and the Paris Agreement.
Finally, two articles about the making-of of Pixar and AppleTV+ shows.
MESSAGETAP: Eavesdropping on SMS Messages inside Telco Networks
FireEye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage campaign to eavesdrop on text messages, violating telco servers: yet another example that demonstrates why end-to-end message encryption is so important.
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