Security News

• iPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs
  U.S. intelligence said that the Chaos iPhone remote takeover exploit was used against the minority ethnic group before Apple could patch the problem.
• 80% of Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Were Fudged
  NY's AG: Millions of fake comments – in favor and against – came from a secret broadband-funded campaign or from a 19-year-old's fake identities.
• Qualcomm Chip Bug Opens Android Fans to Eavesdropping
  A malicious app can exploit the issue, which could affect up to 30 percent of Android phones.
• Critical Cisco SD-WAN, HyperFlex Bugs Threaten Corporate Networks
  The networking giant has rolled out patches for remote code-execution and command-injection security holes that could give attackers keys to the kingdom.
• Ryuk Ransomware Attack Sprung by Frugal Student
  The student opted for “free” software packed with a keylogger that grabbed credentials later used by "Totoro" to get into a biomolecular institute.