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• Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center
• Google Enables Safe Browsing Support in Android's WebView Browser
• Windows Insider RS5 Build 17650 Brings Firewall Rules for WSL
• RansSIRIA Ransomware Takes Advantage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• LinkedIn Fixes AutoFill Button That Allowed Rogue Harvesting of User Data
• FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms
• Finding & Activating Hidden Features in Windows 10 Using Mach2
• Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago
• Brainjacking: A Potentially Deadly Type of Hacking

Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center Posted: 20 Apr 2018 05:19 AM PDT A loud sound emitted by a fire alarm system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe. [...]

Google Enables Safe Browsing Support in Android's WebView Browser Posted: 19 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT Google announced earlier this week plans to enable Safe Browsing support for the Android WebView component, a stripped-down browser that comes with all Android versions. [...]

Windows Insider RS5 Build 17650 Brings Firewall Rules for WSL Posted: 19 Apr 2018 06:16 PM PDT Yesterday Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 to insiders on the Redstone 5 Skip Ahead ring. In this build, Microsoft focused on Windows Defender with a new design to the Windows Defender Security Center and adding Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support to the Windows Defender Firewall. [...]

RansSIRIA Ransomware Takes Advantage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis Posted: 19 Apr 2018 04:20 PM PDT A new ransomware called RansSIRIA has been discovered by MalwareHunterTeam that encrypts your files and then states it will donate your ransom payments to Syrian refugees. This ransomware is a variant of the WannaPeace ransomware and is targeting Brazilian victims. [...]

LinkedIn Fixes AutoFill Button That Allowed Rogue Harvesting of User Data Posted: 19 Apr 2018 03:57 PM PDT A prodigious 18-year-old bug hunter from Chicago has discovered and reported a critical vulnerability in a LinkedIn social button that could have been abused to harvest LinkedIn user information, some of which may not have been public. [...]

FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms Posted: 19 Apr 2018 11:50 AM PDT The US Food & Drug Administration plans to ask Congress for more funding and regulatory powers to improve its approach towards medical device safety, including on the cybersecurity front. [...]

Finding & Activating Hidden Features in Windows 10 Using Mach2 Posted: 19 Apr 2018 08:42 AM PDT Windows 10 builds contain many hidden features that are used by Microsoft to debug code or test applications that have not been officially released yet. A new tool has been released that enables you to find and enable these hidden features in Windows 10. [...]

Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago Posted: 19 Apr 2018 08:09 AM PDT Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011. [...]

Brainjacking: A Potentially Deadly Type of Hacking Posted: 19 Apr 2018 06:45 AM PDT Hacking the brain of someone with an implanted medical device is not a far-fetched illusion. While at one time a concept relegated to hair-raising Hollywood movies, scientists in Belgium have found that a wireless brain implant, known as a neurostimulator, can be hacked using off-the-shelf materials. By utilizing remote exploitation, [...]

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