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17.10.2019: Critical vulnerability in the fingerprint reader of Samsung Galaxy S10
- Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
24.09.2019: Matthew Green comparing before and after of the Snowden revelations
- Looking back at the Snowden revelations
05.09.2019: Amazon AWS Outage
- Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud is Not Always Safe
02.09.2019: Uyghurs were being targeted (both iOS and Android users)
30.08.2019: CEO fraud hits next level
- Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case
29.08.2019: How iOS devices are exploited in the real world
- A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
- Google finds 'indiscriminate iPhone attack lasting years'
29.08.2019: Signing key of a Facebook app got compromised
- Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook's Android apps compromised
28.08.2019: Canada's government thinks about encryption backdoors
- Government’s encryption proposal will undermine public safety
28.08.2019: Statement by Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association
- Urgent Statement of HKISPA on Selective Blocking of Internet Services
27.08.2019: Malicious component found from a popular Android application
- New Android Warning: 100M+ Users Installed App With Nasty Malware Inside—Uninstall Now

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