New York Daily News |
New Canadian rules on reporting data hacks 'long overdue,' critics say
New York Daily News TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian government will require that companies operating in the country report all data breaches to their customers and a privacy watchdog as soon as possible after discovery, a rule that security experts said was long overdue. |
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EITest malware targets Chrome, IE users with file downloader
IT World Canada At the beginning of the year, it was already a well-documented infection chain that generally relied on compromised websites to direct users to exploit kit landing pages. EITest has also been used to deliver a variety of ransomware, information … |
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Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
TechCrunch Security researchers in China have invented a clever way of activating voice recognition systems without speaking a word. By using high frequencies inaudible to humans but which register on electronic microphones, they were able to issue commands to … |
Fanvive.com |
Google pulls 300 WireX malware-carrying apps from the Play store
Fanvive.com Google pulled around 300 malicious apps from their Play Store this week after learning the apps carried code to hijack Android phones and enlist them into part of the WireX DDoS botnet. Most of the affected apps included media/video players, ringtones … Mi Calculator – Android Apps on Google Play |