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JANUARY 4, 2020

Router security has improved a bunch in recent years, but there are still steps you can take to lock yours down even better.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

Early this week, Brazil fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users’ data in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Brazil fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users’ data in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. According to the Brazilian prosecutors, Facebook is responsible for an “abusive practice” that allowed developers of the application “This is Your Digital Life” to access data from 44

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 4, 2020

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

‘ BusKill ‘ is a cheap kill cord Dead Man Switch to trigger the machine to self-destruct in case the laptop is stolen, it was designed by the software engineer Michael Altfield. The idea is very simple, the BusKill cable connects a Linux laptop to the user, for example, to his belt. In case of theft, the USB cable disconnects from the laptop and triggers a udev script that executes a sequence of operations, from shutting down to completely wipe the device or delete certain sensitive

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JANUARY 4, 2020

Maintainers of the OpenCV library addressed two buffer overflow flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Maintainers of the OpenCV library addressed two high-severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open-source library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision.

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