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Security News For The Week Ending May 3, 2019

U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking.  The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending December 14, 2018

Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.  39 of these are rated critical.  Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending Nov 2, 2018

Follow on to Google+ Breach and Notification I recently reported about Google getting in trouble for hiding a breach discovered in March. The first thing to point out is that it is unlikely that Google broke any laws.  The current breach notifications laws in the U.S. give a company the wiggle room not to disclose […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending Sep 7, 2018

China Using Fake Linkedin Profiles to Recruit Americans as Spies US intelligence officials are warning LinkedIn users that China is being “super aggressive” at recruiting Americans with access to government and commeACrcial secrets. The Chinese are creating fake LinkedIn profiles, friending people and trolling to see if they would be valuable if flipped or conned […]

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Android Security Is Improving – But Not As Good As iPhone

The Android community is slowly beginning to understand that they are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with security like Apple has done from the beginning.  The challenge is that unlike Apple, where there is one master in control, the Android community is fractured.  The only one who has any […]

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