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Under AT&T’s current text protocols, AT&T customers are vulnerable to phishing scams via text. Hackers have already posed themselves as representatives from legitimate companies requesting personal information that could be used for credit card fraud and other crimes. As of now, AT&T has declined to comment on this issue. For a full article on this story, click here:: Hackers can spoof AT&T phone messages to steal your information
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This past weekend, Adobe began patching a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, fixing a critical flaw. This was the second vulnerability detected and patched within the past week. The patch should stop Angler attacks from occurring. For more details on this story, click here:: Adobe Begins Auto-Update Patching of Second Flash Player Zero Day
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The U.S. federal website for selecting and signing up citizens for health insurance, Healthcare.gov, has been leaking personal data from signees to various marketers and advertisers. Some of the information they have obtained included age, income, ZIP code, and whether or not a patient smokes or is pregnant. For a full article on this story, click here:: HealthCare.gov Shares Patient Data with Marketers
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Adobe released a security patch for a critical vulnerability that has already been exploited. Criminals can use this vulnerability to circumvent memory randomization mitigations on versions of Windows. Adobe also acknowledges another vulnerability that has yet to be patched. For more details and links for Adobe Flash updates, click here:: Running Adobe Flash? You need to read this today.
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Despite Swedish police raiding its offices and arresting their founding members, the Pirate Bay website looks to be returning back into action. The website now features a picture of a phoenix rising without a countdown clock set to end on February 1^st, likely marking its return. Get the full story here:: The Pirate Bay Updated with Phoenix Image and Set to Return on February 1st
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