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01.12.2016: Serious security flaws found in several implantable medical devices and pacemakers
- Fatal flaws in ten pacemakers make for Denial of Life attacks
- On the (in)security of the Latest Generation Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators and How to Secure Them
30.11.2016: A new Android malware campaign
- 1 million Google accounts compromised by Android malware called Gooligan
- More Than 1 Million Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
30.11.2016: A new Firefox zero-day in the wild
- Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users
22.11.2016: PoC uses headphones as microphone
- Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
17.11.2016: New surveillance law in UK
- Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
16.11.2016: PoisonTap
- Wickedly Clever USB Stick Installs a Backdoor on Locked PCs
- PoisonTap - siphons cookies, exposes internal router & installs web backdoor on locked computers
15.11.2016: Backdoor was found in some phones in the U.S.
- Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say
14.11.2016: Huge amount of accounts breached on an adult dating website
- Up to 400 million accounts in Adult Friend Finder breach
10.11.2016: Poor OAuth 2.0 implementations allowed accounts to be hijacked
- OAuth 2.0 Hack Exposes 1 Billion Mobile Apps to Account Hijacking
10.11.2016: Näide Eesti ettevõtte vastu suunatud vahendusründest
- Tõestisündinud lugu e-posti võltsimise tõttu kaotatud rahast
10.11.2016: Targeted phishing attacks after Donald Trump declared victory
- Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump’s Win
09.11.2016: Hacking group was aggressively using zero-days before they were patched
- Fancy Bear goes all out to beat Adobe, MSFT zero-day patches
25.10.2016: Several security updates released for Apple devices
- Apple Patches iOS Flaw Exploitable by Malicious JPEG
- About the security content of iOS 10.1
21.10.2016: A huge DDoS attack by IoT devices
- 'Smart' home devices used as weapons in website attack
- DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit
- Blame the Internet of Things for Destroying the Internet Today
- Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack
21.10.2016: A security breach in the banking systems in India
- Millions of Indian debit cards 'compromised' in security breach
20.10.2016: A bug was found in Linux kernel
- Warnings over Dirty Cow Linux bug
- “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
- Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195)
20.10.2016: Social engineering attack against John Podesta and Colin Powell
- How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts
17.10.2016: Audit of VeraCrypt
- The QuarksLab audit of VeraCrypt has been completed, and this is the public release of the results.
10.10.2016: TV5Monde suffered a major cyber attack in 2015
- How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by 'Russian hackers'
05.10.2016: Cryptosense was able to factor 18 750 weak RSA keys
- RSA Keytester upgrade – 18 750 new factored keys
05.10.2016: FBI arrested a NSA contractor
- N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets
04.10.2016: It is reported that Yahoo scanned emails for US intelligence
- Yahoo: An Innocent Victim Or A Government Stooge?
- Yahoo 'secretly scanned emails for US authorities'
- Yahoo jälgis salaja USA valitsuse heaks kasutajate e-kirju
- Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance
29.09.2016: Lots of vulnerabilities found in D-Link DWR-932B LTE router
- Vulnerabilities, Backdoor Found in D-Link DWR-932B LTE Router
- Multiple vulnerabilities found in the Dlink DWR-932B (backdoor, backdoor accounts, weak WPS, RCE ...)
28.09.2016: Apple logs the iMessage contacts
- Apple logs your imessage contacts — and may share them with police
25.09.2016: Swiss people vote for increased surveillance
- Swiss endorse new surveillance powers
22.09.2016: A popular security blog was hit by a massive DDoS attack
- KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS
- Krebs Website Hit By 620 Gbps DDoS Attack
- Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net
- The Democratization of Censorship
22.09.2016: Huge data breach at Yahoo
- An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
- Attack on Yahoo hit 500 million users
21.09.2016: How the PIN code lock of iPhone 5C can be unlocked
- The FBI spent $1.3M to crack the iPhone — this hacker spent just $100
15.09.2016: How to recover the passcode of iPhone 5C
- Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode
- The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring
15.09.2016: Press release by the Court of Justice of the European Union
- The operator of a shop who offers a Wi-Fi network free of charge to the public is not liable for copyright infringements committed by users of that network
- Mait Valberg ja Mirjam Võsu: avaliku wifi pakkuja võib olla kohustatud oma võrku salasõnaga kaitsma
14.09.2016: The negative side of encryption backdoors
- The Case Against a Golden Key
08.09.2016: The ruling on hyperlinks by the Court of Justice of the European Union
- European Copyright Ruling Ushers in New Dark Era for Hyperlinks
- JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
30.08.2016: New net neutrality guidelines for the EU
- EU's net neutrality guidelines get published
- Press release- BEREC publishes guidelines on net neutrality
- BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulators of European Net Neutrality Rules
29.08.2016: Malware that can jump airgaps
- Meet USBee, the malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps
29.08.2016: Fake certificates issued by Chinese CA WoSign
- Chinese CA WoSign faces revocation after issuing fake certificates of Github, Microsoft and Alibaba
23.08.2016: An update on the Cisco exploit used by the NSA
- Snowden documents confirm that leaked hacking tools belong to NSA
- NSA-linked Cisco exploit poses bigger threat than previously thought
- Hints suggest an insider helped the NSA “Equation Group” hacking tools leak
- Completely Wrong
- NSA Targeted Chinese Firewall Maker Huawei, Leaked Documents Suggest
19.08.2016: What kind of information does Facebook store
- 98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you
19.08.2016: A review of Britain's bulk data acquisition
- Internet spying powers backed by review
15.08.2016: NSA spying tools leaked
- Hackers Say They Hacked NSA-Linked Group, Want 1 Million Bitcoins to Share More
- Hackers Claim to Auction Data They Stole From NSA-Linked Spies
- How the NSA snooped on encrypted Internet traffic for a decade
- The Shadow Brokers Mess Is What Happens When the NSA Hoards Zero-Days
- Bugs don't come from the Zero-Day Faerie
12.08.2016: A debug mode flaw discovered in Windows
- Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open
10.08.2016: A vulnerability allows to unlock Volkswagen cars
- A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
08.08.2016: Project Sauron revealed
- Researchers crack open unusually advanced malware that hid for 5 years
- ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform covertly extracts encrypted government comms
- Strider: Cyberespionage group turns eye of Sauron on targets
- 'Project Sauron' malware hidden for five years
07.08.2016: Ransomware for smart thermostats
- Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats
07.08.2016: A new flaw found in Android
- 'Quadrooter' flaws affect over 900 million Android phones
29.07.2016: GPS spoofing and how to protect GPS from spoofing
- Protecting GPS From Spoofers Is Critical to the Future of Navigation
31.07.2016: An attack against Find My iPhone
- There are limits to 2FA and it can be near-crippling to your digital life
30.07.2016: The consequences of the DNC hack
- Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump
- All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
- By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines
- The NSA Is Likely 'Hacking Back' Russia's Cyber Squads
- Russia cyber attack: Large hack 'hits government'
- Is Russia hacking the US election?
29.07.2016: How US can intercept Internet traffic
- America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems
26.07.2016: New attack bypasses HTTPS
- New attack bypasses HTTPS protection on Macs, Windows, and Linux
14.07.2016: Problems with CloudFlare
- CloudFlare, We Have A Problem
08.07.2016: Increase of security for Facebook Messenger
- ‘Secret Conversations:’ End-to-End Encryption Comes to Facebook Messenger
06.07.2016: EU has a new directive about cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity: MEPs back rules to help vital services resist online threats
- EU Parliament Approves New Cybersecurity Rules
28.06.2016: Russia introduced a new spy law
- Russia’s new spy law calls for metadata and content to be stored, plus crypto backdoors

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