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Researchers from several German universities have checked the PHP codebases of over 64,000 projects on GitHub, and found 117 vulnerabilities that they believe have been introduced through the use of code from popular but insufficiently reviewed tutorials.
Starting on Thursday, instead of accepting small change from purchases, customers at selected stores can instead opt to deposit it onto prepaid cards such as transportation cards, the Yonhap news agency reports. This means that customers won’t have to carry change in their pockets after making cash payments, the Bank of Korea (BOK) says.
China on Thursday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country’s space station, marking further progress in the ambitious Chinese space program.
South Korea’s credit card companies are seeking to apply the iris scanner adopted by Samsung Electronics Co.‘s Galaxy S8 smartphones on mobile transactions, industry sources said Friday, lauding the feature’s security compared with fingerprints and passwords.
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The Information reports that Uber secretly tracked Lyft drivers using an internal software program it dubbed
What APIs and device info was Uber using to identify iPhones? Are these API loopholes now closed in iOS? If we don
Uber is pushing back on the allegations, saying that the tracking is a common industry practice used to prevent fraud and account compromise.
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If you’re unfamiliar, BrickerBot is a new malware family that was first identified at the start of the month by Radware researchers. The malware made headlines because it was the first threat of its kind that intentionally bricked IoT and networking devices, by rewriting the flash storage space of affected devices with random data.
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