If you pay attention to surveillance over smart TVs, then you’ve heard a lot about Samsung Smart TV spying; but now LG Smart TVs are in the crosshairs thanks to one owner who discovered LG is purportedly uploading his personal filenames from a USB drive to LG servers. RELATED: 12 creepy new robots that could take over the world
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One of the only things worse than discovering a gaping security hole that puts about 308,000 servers at risk of being hacked is learning that there is nothing you can do to actually fix it. Some people may argue that there are mitigations, but “By definition, the technology is pretty much broken,” according to HD Moore, chief research officer at Rapid7 and creator of Metasploit.
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Government spyware servers in South Africa: Telkom, Govt mum
MyBroadband In this case the spyware program is referred to as FinSpy, and it has drawn the ire of Mozilla for keeping itself hidden by masquerading as Firefox. It's important to note that the Citizen Lab report doesn't say anything about FinSpy infecting Firefox … Mozilla warns spyware maker: Stop spoofing us! Spyware found on SA servers Mozilla blasts spurious disguise of online surveillance tools |
Malicious hackers could create a boobytrapped TIFF image file and either trick a BlackBerry smartphone user into visiting a webpage carrying the image, or embed the malicious image directly into an email or instant message… ..and plant malware on your enterprise server.
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