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The company plans to alert 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised by malicious software.

Exploit allows unsigned and unnotarized macOS applications to bypass Gatekeeper and other security, without notifying the user.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  As I wrote about last week, I’ve been diving a lot into apps’ privacy policies recently. And I was recently made aware of a new type of app I never knew existed — family trackers.  There are countless mobile apps for parents to track their children or other family members based on their location, phone usage, and even driving speed. As an anxious soon-to-be-parent, this sounds intriguing to me — it’d be a supped-up version of Find my Friends on Apple devices so I’d never have to ask my teenager (granted, I’m many years away from being at that stage of my life) when they were coming home or where they were.  Just as with all other types of mobile apps, there are pitfalls, though.   Life360, one of the most popular of these types of apps and even tells users what their maximum driving speed was on a given trip, was found in December 2021 to be selling precise location data on its users, potentia...

Any time we welcome this software and hardware into our homes and on our devices, it’s worth considering what sacrifices we might be making elsewhere.

Security researchers have shared details about a now-addressed security flaw in Apple's macOS operating system that could be potentially exploited to run malicious applications in a manner that can bypass Apple's security measures. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-32910, is rooted in the built-in Archive Utility and "could lead to the execution of an unsigned and unnotarized application

Canteen Management version 1.0-2022 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

By Waqas TrollStore does not work on anything above iOS 15.5, and beta 4, not on iOS 15.5, not on version 15.6, and not on iOS 16). This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New TrollStore Tool Permanently Installs Apps on Non-Jailbroken iOS Devices

A lesson in how to achieve maximum value for your discoveries

By Waqas With the increasing use of the internet, browser security has become an important issue. Malware, phishing, and adware… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet Plexus, An AI-based Browser Security Solution from LayerX

Constantly posting content on social media can erode your privacy—and sense of self.