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Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
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Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from Google Play has been caught hosting malware that surreptitiously sends users’ contacts to an attacker-controlled server and signs up users to pricey subscriptions, a security firm reported. The app, named Color Message, was still available on Google servers at the time this...

Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
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Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network

Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been unable to engage with the administrators responsible, security firm Avast said on Thursday. The US Commission on International Religious...

Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year
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Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year

Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast says it won’t deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year’s reprieve to 12 states and a few other areas where Comcast customers don’t face overage fees. “We don’t have plans to implement our data usage plan...

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Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit

Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos) Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and enterprise network on the planet. Open-source developers quickly released an update that patched the flaw and urged all users to install it immediately....