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The discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, one of the world’s most widely used messaging apps, is nothing short of frightening. This vulnerability allowed an adversary, who is yet to be identified (but I’d bet my left kidney that it’s some flavor of nefarious state actor), to install sophisticated spyware in a targeted way. I don’t know how else I can say this: this is really bloody bad. But the thing is, it could have been much worse. WhatsApp was able to quickly issue a fix to all users. Furthermore, the Facebook-owned company has a long-standing policy of only…
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While kids are surrounded by technology today, it’s not wise to introduce them to every single gadget out there. But you can start their gizmo journey by putting an Echo Dot Kids Edition in their bedroom for just $35 – down from $70. This Amazon smart speaker is configured to restrict the content to only kid-friendly stuff. Children can ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, read stories, tell jokes, and more. Its algorithm makes sure that the device plays only age-appropriate stuff. For instance, it filters out all explicit songs from Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music. Plus, you’ll get…
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Prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence for a group of Bitcoin scammers have seen their hopes slashed after a court rejected their claim. As previously reported by Hard Fork, the group of men scammed Chinese businessmen out of approximately $250,000 in an online Bitcoin scam. The scam ring of one man from India, one from Bangladesh, and the rest from Pakistan. All were initially charged with confinement and theft. Each of the men from Pakistan were handed a one year prison sentence by Dubai Criminal Court to be followed by deportation. Prosecutors sought a harsher sentence to secure a conviction against the…
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WhatsApp, the messaging app used by more than 1.5 billion worldwide, says it’s patched a critical security vulnerability which allowed attackers to secretly infect phones with malicious spyware by just calling phone numbers over an in-app audio call. The Facebook-owned company said the attack targeted a “select number” of users, and was orchestrated by “an advanced cyber actor,” according a statement from a WhatsApp spokesperson. CVE-2019-3568, as the vulnerability has been documented, was discovered early this month, according to The Financial Times. It exploited a bug in the audio call feature of the app to allow the caller to inject spyware on…
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