If you run a WordPress site, you should check for
the latest security flaws in the following plugins
if you happen to use them on your site. In the
worst case an attacker could gain admin access!

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The 36th Chaos Computer Club summit is taking
place and there’s already the first horror message
around. According to Kaspersky, a widespread
control system from Siemens seems affected.

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IoT is a fine ting, most people of us think.
Checking room temperature, switch lights
remotely or do a surveillance remotely
using internet-connected webcams.

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For sure nothing one would like to read about but it seems
as if NordVPNs safe network has been compromised in 2018
and some personal information (private keys) were stolen.
This can mean a serious problem as these keys can be used…

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Odd but true: Nowadays even a TV needs a virus scanner.
In this case Samsung suggests that you install McAfee
VirusScan for Android and let it run once a month to find
possible malicious apps running on your TV.

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If you’re in the U.S.A. and crossed the border there
to either Canada or Mexico with your vehicle, then
it might be most likely that yours and your vehicle’s
license plate image has been stolen from the USBP.

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The australian government hot hacked. While it is
unknown what kind of data was stolen, it is more
or less noticable that all fingers are pointed
towards China accusing them for the attemmpt.

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With the release of the so-called GrayKey it
seemed as if even the newest iPhones were
prone to being hacked easily. Although there
were some hurdles to take.

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As it wouldn’t have been enough with all the bad news about webservices,
here’s another one for the saturday. It seems as if there’s a bib botnet sear-
ching for security holes in WordPress installations and using them as
zombie servers. The first thing is the brute force attack on the admin pass.

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It seems as if the troubles around Diablo III aren’t going to stop. Have recent
logon problems already gone for good, there’s the next issue upcoming. More
and more people are reporting their skilled and hard-played characters to be
stripped down (=their account being hacked) without having any clue, why!

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So you think your private data stored on your smartphone is secure? No one
can get access to your phone anyways? You have an antitheft-system active?
Well good to know that you seem to have taken all precautions to stop others
to access your smartphone and it’s data. But did you know that’s not enough?

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It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!

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Reading my favourite computer tech site today, I stumbled over a really interesting article
that made me also think about the current world situation.
As wars are currently striking on Libya, Syria and some other african countries, the
following linked article made me really thinking and also brought up some uncomfyness!

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