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Governments are using a Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerability to Spy on Windows Computers

Government hackers were using a previously-unknown vulnerability in Microsoft’s .NET Framework, a development platform for building apps, to hack targets and infect them with spyware, according to security firm FireEye. The firm revealed the espionage campaign on Tuesday, on the same day Microsoft patched the vulnerability. According to FireEye, the bug, which until today was a zero-day, was being used by a customer of FinFisher, a company that sells surveillance […]

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Use the FREE On My Disk Software to Create Your Own Private and Secure Personal Cloud

You probably have read a lot in this web site and elsewhere about the various file storage services in the cloud. Some of the better known ones include Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, SugarSync, SpiderOak, Tresorit, Mega.nz, and perhaps a few dozen others. These are valuable services that allow you to gain access to your files wherever you are, to (optionally) share files with others, and to copy files from one […]

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Kaspersky Now Offers a Free Antivirus Program for Your Windows PC

Kaspersky is a Russian security vendor that offers several well-known and well-respected anti-virus and anti-malware (“malevolent software) products. Now the company is launching a free version of its award-winning antivirus software worldwide. Kaspersky Free offers the most basic protection for free for everyone who wants it. And all without bombarding you with ads. Kaspersky Free is now available in selected countries. In the words of Eugene Kaspersky himself, it offers […]

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Telegram Now Sends Disappearing Messages, Just Like Snapchat

Telegram is a very popular program for instant messaging as well as for sending pictures, videos, and even making voice calls to other Telegram users. I have written about Telegram several times in the past. You can find my past articles by starting at: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aprivacyblog.com+telegram&t=h_&ia=web. Now Telegram has greatly increased user privacy even more. The cell phone app now lets you send your friends “self-destructing” photos and videos that disappear […]

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Password Manager Onelogin Hacked, Exposing Sensitive Customer Data

If you use Onelogin, you need to read the article in ZDnet at http://zd.net/2rZ1pgs. Comment: Similar weaknesses exist in all password managers and is one of the reasons why I have never used a password manager. The idea of keeping all your passwords in one place simply strikes me as a very bad idea. Any password manager automatically becomes a single point of failure. Anyone with the know-how could potentially […]

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Keybase Chat: a Free, Seamless Encrypted Web Chat Service for Everyone

Keybase Chat provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end encrypted chat built into the producing company’s earlier Keybase encrypted file sharing software. Unlike other encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp or Signal, Keybase Chat works with public accounts and usernames you already have, so there’s no need to exchange phone numbers, email addresses or encryption keys. Anyone can send a Keybase Chat message to anyone else on the internet — even if they […]

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Telegram 4.0 Now Available

Telegram is one of the more secure messaging systems of today. Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct so that no future hacker can ever read them. With Telegram, you can SECURELY and SAFELY encrypt personal and business secret communications, send documents of any type, coordinate groups of up to 5000 members, destroy your sent messages with a timer, and much, much more. It is available for Android, Apple […]

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CIA-created Spyware called Athena released by WikiLeaks, Targets All Major Windows Versions

Do you use Windows? If so, there is a huge new security problem for you: Athena allows an attacker to take total control of a computer, send and retrieve data to and from remote locations, such as CIA servers, delete data and also upload other malicious code onto the computer, thereby introducing even more infections. It also works for any version of Windows from Windows XP to Windows 10, marking […]

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Aomei Backupper Free Helps Protect Against Ransomware and Many Other Nasties

Aomei Backupper Free is a freeware Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista backup utility that’s “specially designed to protect your system and files against ransomware.” Actually, there are dozens of backup programs available for Window2s and most of them do a good job at saving files. What sets Aomei Backupper Free apart from its competitors is the protection offered against specific to WannaCry and other ransomware. Specifically, it instructs you on the kind of […]

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