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Your Car Is Watching You—and Wants to Sell You Stuff

30

Sep

2016

This isn’t a futuristic vision. The navigation app Waze invites drivers to select favored brands (Starbucks, perhaps?), so marketers can push location-based promotions to to them. But this data isn’t always used to see you something. It can also save your life. General Motors’ OnStar service summons help when your airbag deploys. Data is neither good or bad. But it […]

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High Severity DoS Flaw Patched in BIND

29

Sep

2016

Updates released this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the DNS software BIND address two vulnerabilities, including a new high-severity issue that can be exploited remotely. BIND 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.4-P3 and 9.11.0rc3 patch a previously undisclosed denial-of-service (DoS) flaw that can be exploited using specially crafted DNS request packets. The security hole, tracked as […]

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PC-nuking malware sneakily replaces popular free software on FossHub

05

Aug

2016

This isn’t good. Two of the most popular programs on download site FossHub were recently replaced with malware that nuked the master boot records on any PC unlucky enough to install it. The free software site had to act quickly after hackers infiltrated it through compromised user accounts. While the hackers were in the system […]

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