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Hackers Target Manchester United: Club

23

Nov

2020

“The club has taken swift action to contain the attack and is currently working with expert advisers to investigate the incident and minimise the ongoing IT disruption,” it said in a statement late Friday. All “critical systems” required for games to take place at Old Trafford were secure, the statement said, adding Saturday’s game against […]

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Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks

17

Sep

2020

Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to researchers. When installing a mobile messenger like WhatsApp, new users can instantly start texting existing contacts based on the phone numbers stored on their device. For this to happen, users […]

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Amazon Alexa ‘One-Click’ Attack Can Divulge Personal Data

13

Aug

2020

Vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant platform could allow attackers to access users’ banking data history or home addresses – simply by persuading them to click on a malicious link. Researchers with Check Point found several web application flaws on Amazon Alexa subdomains, including a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw and cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) misconfiguration. […]

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