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Practical guides for journalists and frontline activists on hardening phones, securing accounts, and countering hacking and inspection attempts.

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A huge leak includes 26 billion records of data from LinkedIn, Twitter, Adobe, and others

A huge amount of data, totaling 26 billion records, was leaked online (including passwords, personal account names, email, and other data), total of 12 terabytes. The leaked data is related to services such as Linkedin, Twitter, Tencent, Weibo, and others. The leak also includes data for various government organizations in the United States, Brazil, Germany, […]

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Security update fixes a Zero-Day vulnerability in Chrome

Google has issued an update that fixes a security vulnerability in its Chrome browser. It is a “Zero-day” vulnerability, which means that it is already widespread among hackers and is unknown to the browser developers until they discover and fixes it. It has been registered under the title CVE-2024-0519. We recommend users update to version […]

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Signal tests new feature to enhance users’ privacy

In an important step towards enhancing the privacy of users of the application, Signal announced a new feature aimed at reducing the sharing of phone numbers between users, by registering a username for each account, where users can now register any names of their choice and share it instead of their phone numbers. The feature […]

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A new privacy feature from WhatsApp

Meta has released a new update to the WhatsApp application, which includes a new security and privacy feature that hides users’ IP address while making calls. An IP address is a unique address assigned to each device connected to the Internet. It is used to identify and distinguish devices in the network and route data […]

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Hackers claims a ransomware attack on Fawry

The hacker group LockBit, which specializes in ransomware, claimed an attack on Fawry and set a deadline for paying ransom and recovering their files, which is November 28, 2023. Ransomware, is a type of malware that encrypts user files on the target device, and then asks the user to pay ransom (usually via digital currencies […]

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Spreading of Phishing Attacks Amid Gaza Events

Phishing attacks are serious threats that widely spread during times of crisis. Hackers and scammers take advantage of significant events to breach individuals’ and organizations’ online phishing attacks conducted via social media platforms and email. With the outbreak of events in Gaza and the observed bias in social media algorithms favoring one side over the […]

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Security updates for Firefox and Google Chrome

Mozilla and Google have released emergency updates to Firefox, Thunderbird email browsing software, and the Chrome web browser to fix security vulnerability,tracked as CVE-2023-4863, through which the user’s device can be hacked by opening a malicious WebP image. We recommend that users update to Firefox versions 117.0.1, Firefox ESR 115.2.1, Thunderbird 115.2.2, and Google Chrome […]

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Apple fixed zero-day vulnerabilities in its OSs exploited by Pegasus

Apple issued an emergency update for all its operating systems, to fic two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited by the spyware company Pegasus. The meaning of zero-day is that it is a well-known and widespread vulnerability among hackers and unknown to developers until the time it was discovered and fixed. The two vulnerabilities were tracked […]

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Google fixes a zero-day vulnerability in Android

Google released monthly security updates – September 2023 for Android, to correct a number of security vulnerabilities, including the zero-day vulnerability patch, meaning zero-day. It is a known and widespread vulnerability among hackers and unknown to developers until the time it is discovered and corrected. This vulnerability has been tracked and identified as CVE-2023-35674. We […]

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