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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers. Dubbed as ‘Magellan’ by Tencent’s Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary or malicious code on affected devices, leak program memory or crash applications. SQLite is a

New ‘Magellan’ vulnerability will haunt the app ecosystem for years to come.

Oh, Bing! Not again!

Facebook’s latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users. Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in its photo-sharing system that let 876 developers access users’ private photos which they never shared … Devamını oku

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia’s largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and sensitive files on about 10 percent of its … Devamını oku

Up to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers could have had accessed the private photos of 6.8 million users.

The Signal app’s design and open source code policy makes this impossible.

A number of former USSR nation states are also on the target list.

“Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building” A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationwide chaos, forcing widespread evacuations and police response. The bomb threat emails were apparently sent by … Devamını oku

As the threat of bogus apps continues, what can we do to protect ourselves against these fraudulent practices? The post How to protect yourself as the threat of scam apps grows appeared first on WeLiveSecurity