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Cracked windshield helps hacker find bug in Tesla

Retrieved from SC Magazine - By: Bradley Barth

A hacker cracked the windshield in his Tesla which led to the the discovery of a software bug. This discovery, under Tesla's bug bounty reward program, resulted in a hefty reward for the hacker. ...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:34 AM

Firefox will mark all HTTP pages as 'not secure'

Retrieved from ZDNet - By: Catalin Cimpanu

Mozilla Firefox has announced that, like Google Chrome has done in the past, this coming October they will be introducing a "not secure" indicator for HTTP websites in Firefox Red more here:...

Posted: July 17, 2019, 9:19 AM

Instagram Account Vulnerability Earns Hacker $30,000

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

Facebook awards researcher and ethical hacker, Laxman Muthiya $30,000 for discovering a critical vulnerability that hackers could have easily exploited to hack Instagram accounts. Read more...

Posted: July 15, 2019, 10:26 AM

Media File Jacking via WhatsApp and Telegram

Retrieved from Security Week - By: Eduard Kovacs

Symantec warns that hackers can exploit a default configuration in WhatsApp and Telegram in order to manipulate media files transferred by users if they have the "save to gallery" option enabled....

Posted: July 15, 2019, 8:49 AM