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5 Security Things to Know for the Week of Sept. 18

Written by Dan Kaplan | Sep 18, 2017

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1) Microsoft and Adobe delivered monthly patches, with the former including a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in its popular .NET framework.

2) A bug in Bluetooth, dubbed "BlueBourne," places potentially huge numbers of unpatched phones and devices at risk to an attack that requires no user interaction.

3) More Android malware is spreading like wildfire in the Google Play app store.

4) Hackers backdoored with malware a free software tool said to help improve performance on Windows machines and Android devices.

5) Phishers are targeting LinkedIn users with a fresh campaign.