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Five Reforms the FTC Can Undertake Now to Strengthen the Agency

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on TechTank. The Federal Trade Commission is a small but resilient federal agency with an outsized influence on the commercial marketplace. It fights fraud and deception, protects consumer privacy, and promotes competition using both law enforcement and an array of policy tools (workshops, reports, education, etc.) that amplify its reach […]

Five privilege escalation flaws fixed in Linux Kernel

Experts found five vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2021-26708, that could lead to local privilege escalation. Positive Technologies researcher Alexander Popov found five high severity vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could lead to local privilege escalation. The Linux kernel vulnerabilities are race conditions that reside in AF_VSOCK implementation, they were implicitly introduced in November […]

Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals

Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals An easy-to-read guide to protecting your digital life and your family online The rise of new technologies in our lives, which has taken us from powerful mobile phones to fitness trackers and smart appliances in under a decade, has also raised […]

It’s that time again: Android kicks off June’s patch parade with fixes for five hijack holes

Updates are on the way… if you have a Google device, at least Google has released its June bundle of security vulnerability patches for Android, with fixes for 22 CVE-listed flaws included.… The Register – Security

Global Privacy Concerns: The World’s Top Five Cities Using Invasive Technology

Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Cities are expanding their technological reach. Many of their efforts work to increase public protections, such as using GPS tracking to help first responders quickly locate the site of a car accident. But, in the rush for a more secure and technologically advanced city, privacy can fall by the wayside. We’ve reviewed the top cities around the […]