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The Google tracking feature you didn’t know you’d switched on

03

Oct

2017

It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and this week’s theme is simple steps to online safety. Here’s a simple step for you: see if you have Google’s Your Timeline turned on and, if you do, switch it off.

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Severe flaws in DNS app create hacking risk for routers, smartphones, computers, IoT

03

Oct

2017

Google researchers disclosed seven serious flaws in an open-source DNS software package Dnsmasq, which is is commonly preinstalled on routers, servers, smartphones, IoT devices and operating systems such the Linux distributions Ubuntu and Debian. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to run malicious code and hijack the device.

Category Security Vulnerabilities Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Security Risks of TSA PreCheck

28

Dec

2016

Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA’s PreCheck program:

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Schneier 0 Comments

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