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Once again, Adobe releases emergency Flash patch for Hacking Team 0-days

Adobe Systems has issued an emergency update for its Flash media player to patch two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow attackers to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers.

The previously unknown vulnerabilities were unearthed in the 400-gigabyte data dump hackers published nine days ago after rooting the servers of Hacking Team, the Italy-based company that sold spyware and exploits to governments around the world. As previously reported, Hacking Team was itself hacked by unknown individuals, who then published e-mails, sales invoices, and marketing material that appeared to contradict long-standing assurances from company executives that they operated ethically and didn’t do business with repressive governments.

The two Flash vulnerabilities unearthed this past weekend are in addition to a third one found earlier in the Hacking Team dump, which Adobe patched last week, a few days after it was discovered. All three critical vulnerabilities were present in Flash versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. At least one of them was potent enough to pierce the vaunted Google Chrome security sandbox, most likely because it was combined with a separate privilege-escalation exploit for Windows.

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Ransomware creator apologizes for ‘sleeper’ attack, releases decryption keys

Last week, a new strain of ransomware called Locker was activated after having been sitting silently on infected PCs. Security firm KnowBe4 called Locker a “sleeper” campaign that, when the malware’s creator “woke it up,” encrypted the infected devices’ files and charged roughly $ 24 in exchange for the decryption keys.

See also: ‘Sleeper’ ransomware laid dormant on infected PCs until this week

This week, an internet user claiming to be the creator of Locker publicly apologized for the campaign and appears to have released the decryption keys for all the devices that fell victim to it, KnowBe4 reported in an alert issued today. Locker’s creator released this message in a PasteBin post:

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Akamai Releases Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report – MarketWatch

Akamai Releases Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. AKAM, -0.03% the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today announced the availability of the Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report. This quarter's report, which provides analysis and insight

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Google Releases Android Security Paper, But Just How Secure Is Android? – Tech Times


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Google Releases Android Security Paper, But Just How Secure Is Android?
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Google has released what it is calling the "Android Security State of the Union," which is essentially a rundown of security on Android. The report reveals a number of very interesting things, including that 10 million Android devices have apps
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