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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 26, 2023

Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]

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Logon Using Facebook ID? Understand the Devil’s Bargain You Made

Security.  Convenience.  Pick one!  That is my forever mantra. Now we are finding out that when you login to your favorite site using “Login with Facebook” your data is exposed to third parties.  Nice. According to research from “Freedom to Tinker” at Princeton, when a user logs in using Facebook’s API, Javascript on the site […]

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The Safety Of Using Your Facebook ID To Sign On To Other Websites

UPDATE:  Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]

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