Security Affairs newsletter Round 46 – News of the week

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 45 – News of the week

27% of all detected malware appeared in 2015

Dozens of games infected with Xiny available on the Google Play

Facebook XSS could have allowed attackers to take over users accounts

JSPatch hot patching technique puts iOS users at risk

Audit shows Department of Homeland Security 6 billion U.S. Dollar firewall not so effective against hackers

NASA hacked by AnonSec that hijacked a $222m Global Hawk drone

Default conf on Apache Web servers can de-anonymize your hidden service

DropboxCache Backdoor, a new Cross-Platform threat

On Friday, United Nation can decide that Assange is being illegally detained

A severe vulnerability affects eBay, be careful to phishing attacks

Cybersecurity Operational Tests And Assessments – US Defence cant check F-35 data due to insecure systems

Comodo Chromodo Secure Internet Browser exposes you at risks

Europol, a new move against terrorism and money laundering

Former DoE worker was hacking to steal nuclear secrets and resell them

ISISs Afaaq Electronic Foundation (AEF) spreads awareness on anti-surveillance tools

Malwarebytes is working hard to fix flaws in its antivirus

Safe Harbor replaced with Privacy Shield

Do you have a Netgear ProSAFE NMS300? Here you are the exploit to hack it

Someone has pwned the Dridex botnet serving the Avira Antivirus

Australian NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy under attack. Is it Chinese cyber espionage?

Emergency. Hundreds of compromised WordPress sites serve TeslaCrypt ransomware

Researchers spotted a new OS X scareware campaign

US and UK mutual agreement on wiretap orders and search warrants

The UN panel rules Julian Assange is in arbitrary detention

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