Our focus in cyber security news for this week looks at Amazon and the news that links are being built to check if product reviewers may know the author/creator.
It is interesting to see what other people are saying this week as details circulate regarding Amazon’s surveillance over reviews. It seems they are crawling data to find out if a reviewer knows, for example, the author of the book they are purchasing. This is aimed to keep reviews fair but is this data used elseware?
Full article here. For comments go here.
More News:
- Adobe Flash exploit that was leaked by Hacking Team goes wild; patch now! (ArsTechnica)
- Adobe issues 7th emergency patch to Flash Player (IT Toolbox Blogs)
- Adobe Patches Hacking Team’s Flash Player Zero-Day
- Adobe tackles Hacking Team zero-day vulnerability (ZDNet)
- Analysts find exploits in Hacking Team leaks, investigate zero-day attacks (SC Magazine)
- Buffer to UTF8 String conversion DoS in node.js and io.js (Reddit)
- Days after Hacking Team breach, nobody fired, no customers lost (ArsTechnica)
- DoS Vulnerability Patched in Node.js
- Italian surveillance company hacked, documents stolen (Yahoo Security)
- Microsoft becomes OpenBSD’s first gold contributor (ZDNet)
- Mozilla Patches Critical Vulnerabilities With Release of Firefox 39 (SecurityWeek)
- Mozilla releases Firefox 39, fixes several vulnerabilities (SC Magazine)
- Mr. Robot’s Cyber Crime Expert Talks Accuracy, Hacking Misconceptions And What Other Shows Get Wrong (Forbes)
- Panda Security Multiple Products Arbitrary Code Execution (Reddit)
- Simultaneous downing of NY Stock Exchange, United, and WSJ.com rattle nerves (ArsTechnica)
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