U.S. Military Bans Huawei, ZTE Phones

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Personnel on US military bases can no longer buy phones and other gear manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE, after the Pentagon said the devices pose an “unacceptable” security risk. Concerns have heightened at the Pentagon about consumer electronics being used to snoop on or track service members. “Huawei and ZTE devices may pose…

MILLIONS OF APPS LEAK PRIVATE USER DATA VIA LEAKY AD SDKS

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SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers.“ “The scale of what we first thought was just specific cases of careless application design is overwhelming,”…

Flaw in Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely

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A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on BitTorrent users’ computers and take control of them. The vulnerability has been uncovered by Google’s Project Zero vulnerability reporting team, and one of its researchers Tavis Ormandy has also posted a proof-of-concept attack—just 40…