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Apples iOS 14.5 software update fixes background tracking on apps 27 Apr, 2021 05:58 AM 3 minutes to read How Find My GPS tracking works on Apple devices. Video / Apple news.com.au By: Evin Priest The new Apple software update is out and comes with a massive tweak that will change the way you use your phone. A massive update to Apples iPhone software has dropped that will make it difficult for Facebook and other apps to track your data in the background. iOS 14.5 arrived on Monday and comes wi...

Technology by Evin Priest   A massive update to Apples iPhone software has dropped that will make it difficult for Facebook and other apps to track your data in the background. iOS 14.5 arrived on Monday and comes with App Tracking Transparency that will enhance the privacy settings for the companys billion iPhone users. Until now, Facebook and other apps have been able to mine data from iPhones if users had not changed their settings to prevent it, which...

Vietnamese engineer honored by US Department of Defense By Luu Quy  &nbspApril 25, 2021 | 12:00 pm GMT+7 Tran Dai Chi poses for photo with his degree from the Southern Methodist University, Texas, U.S., in 2019. Photo courtesy of Chi. Tran Dai Chi received an honorable mention from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for helping ensure domestic cybercrime security. The 29-year-old works as a security engineer at Amazon in Texas. When the Covid-19 outbreak first hit the southern state, he wa...

Researchers Identify Major DNS Vulnerabilities Affecting Millions of IoT Devices Recently, researchers have been able to identify several DNS related vulnerabilities in many popular TCP/IP stacks. What is a DSN, what vulnerabilities have been identified, and how many devices are affected? What is a DSN? The Internet is truly one of humanity’s greatest inventions, and is simple when compared to other modern technologies such as CPUs, microcontrollers, and FPGAs. Fundamentally, the Internet is ...

Apr 14, 2021 The IcedID banking trojan has entered Check Point Research’s Global Threat Index for the first time, taking second place, while the established Dridex trojan was the most prevalent malware during March, up from seventh in February. First seen in 2017, IcedID has been spreading rapidly in March via several spam campaigns, affecting 11% of organisations globally. One widespread campaign used a Covid-19 theme to entice new victims into opening malicious email attachments; the majori...

Microsoft releases security updates for Exchange Server following report by the NSA Apr 14, 2021 00:56 EDT with 0 comments This time around, security updates are only available to Exchange Server 2013 CU23, Exchange Server 2016 CU19 and CU20, and Exchange Server 2019 CU8 and CU9. If youre not on any of the aforementioned cumulative updates (CUs), Microsoft recommends that you first upgrade to a supported environment and then apply the security updates. Once again, Ex...

Forescout researchers teamed up with JSOF to find the flaws and added that these can impact over 100 million consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT devices worldwide. Millions of IT networks use FreeBSD, including Netflix and Yahoo. Meanwhile, IoT/OT firmware, such as Siemens’ Nucleus NET has been used for decades in critical OT and IoT devices. If exploited, among the plausible scenarios researchers laid out included exposing government or enterprise servers by accessing sensitive data, su...

PHPs Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code By Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their  git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off on these commits as if these were made by known PHP developers and maintainers, Rasmus Lerdorf  and Nikita Popov. RCE backdoor planted on PHP Git server In an attempt to compromise the PHP code base, two malicious commits were pushed to the official PHP Git reposi...

Get Permission VMware has issued patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its IT operations management platform, vRealize Operations, which, if exploited, could allow attackers to steal administrative credentials. The platform is designed to offer self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments in a unified platform powered by artificial intelligence. VMware issued patches on Tuesday for the flaws CVE-2021-21975, which has a CVSS ranking of 8.6, and CV...

The defacement involves the following message: “UP, DINGGIN NINYO ANG ISANG NATATANGING PROTESTA.” This is one example of hackers defacing websites to protest social and political injustice around the globe. UP Diliman Administration published online a statement, which said: “We are still investigating the circumstances that led to the defacement of the UVLê website on 7 March 2021. We will make sure to do what is fair and just to all concerned. Rest assured that the University has back...