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[U] North Korea Has Been Exploiting a Flash Player 0-Day Since November – Grants Attackers Full Control (Patch …

  1. [U] North Korea Has Been Exploiting a Flash Player 0-Day Since November – Grants Attackers Full Control (Patch …  Wccftech
  2. Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Spotted in the Wild  Threatpost
  3. New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Spotted in the Wild  BleepingComputer
  4. Full coverage

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Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus Prime Exclusive grants access to phone with the tap of a lockscreen ad

  1. Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus Prime Exclusive grants access to phone with the tap of a lockscreen ad  Android Police
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Computer science researchers at UNO receive grants, and other area higher education news – The Advocate

Computer science researchers at UNO receive grants, and other area higher education news
The Advocate
Computer science researchers at the University of New Orleans have received three cybersecurity education grants totaling $ 468,000 from the National Security Agency. The funding will support efforts to develop educational materials, evaluate the …

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FCC grants VoIP service providers equal access to telephone numbers

Some of you may not have known this was controversial, but the FCC this morning announced that going forward VoIP service providers such as Vonage will no longer be second-class citizens when it comes to the doling out of telephone numbers.

From an FCC press release:  

The Federal Communications Commission today modernized and streamlined its rules governing the distribution of phone numbers by leveling the playing field for interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, which are increasingly popular with consumers.

Interconnected VoIP providers – defined as those capable of placing and receiving calls to and from the traditional phone network — currently must get numbers from third-party carriers.  Allowing these providers to go directly to numbering administrators for phone numbers will benefit consumers by reducing costs and promoting additional competition from these innovative VoIP providers, the FCC found.

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Network World Paul McNamara