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Facebook Blocks Chinese State Hackers Targeting Uyghur Activists Facebook took down accounts used by a Chinese-sponsored hacking group to deploy surveillance malware on devices used by Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. “They targeted activists, journalists, and dissidents, predominantly among Uyghurs from Xinjiang in China primarily living abroad in Turkey, Kazakhstan, the United States,
Microsoft Fixes Windows PSExec Privilege Elevation Vulnerability Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the PsExec utility that allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows devices. PsExec is a Sysinternals utility designed to allow administrators to perform various activities on remote computers, such as launching executables and displaying the output on the local computer
Google Chrome Will Use HTTPS As Default Navigation Protocol Google Chrome will switch to choosing HTTPS as the default protocol for all URLs typed in the address bar, starting with the web browser’s next stable version. This feature entered testing last month, and it rolled out as part of a limited experiment for users of Chrome Canary, Dev,
Cisco Addresses Critical Bug In Windows, MacOS Jabber Clients Cisco has addressed a critical arbitrary program execution vulnerability impacting several versions of Cisco Jabber client software for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Cisco Jabber is a web conferencing and instant messaging app that allows users to send messages via the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).