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The original Barcode Scanner app, seemingly mistaken for malware, is getting review-bombed

The Verge

One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. And there’s just no motive, to make an app for 13 years just to stick malware in at the end is an implausibly long game,” he says.

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Uptycs Identifies New Ransomware Binary Targeting Linux

SecureWorld News

Its malware is specifically geared toward ESXi hosts, as it contains two related commands. RaaS was brought up as a key problem during a recent BarCode podcast recorded at SecureWorld Philadelphia last month. Find the session recording on the BarCode website , on Apple Podcasts , or on YouTube.

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Traveling (Part 2) - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

No matter where I am, it becomes much easier to find the numbers from the app (which will display the barcode if there is one to be scanned) then to have a keychain or wallet filled with all the different cards. I store all of my hotel, supermarket, drug store and rental car numbers in it. Who wants to be bothered carrying that around.

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