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Contact Tracing Apps R.I.P. – Security Now 768



Contact tracing apps are not going to work.

• Why contact tracing apps are never going to work
• Unc0ver: There’s a new iOS jailbreak in town, and as jailbreaks go, it looks VERY nice!
• Firefox 77 picks up a nifty new security trick
• New features in Chrome 83: cookie management, “Safety Check,” blocking third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode, and “Tab Groups”
• Adobe rushes out four out-of-cycle emergency updates to fix security flaws
• Zerodium temporarily stops buying iOS remote code execution vulnerabilities
• The NXNS Attack: A group of cybersecurity researchers in Israeli have responsibly disclosed details about a new way they worked out of using the Internet’s domain name resolution system to hugely amplify (by a factor of at least 1620 packets) a DDoS attack to take down targeted websites.
• BIAS – Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS is nothing less than a complete collapse of Bluetooth security.
• Is eBay port scanning its user’s computers?…

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