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2019-07-19 18:01:04 |
Contractor who stole 50TB of NSA data gets nine years in prison (lien direct) |
Prosecutors never proved former NSA contractor was the origin for the Shadow Brokers leak. |
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2019-07-19 13:18:00 |
Oakland follows San Francisco\'s lead in banning facial recognition tech (lien direct) |
The council is fighting back against privacy violations made possible through facial surveillance. |
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2019-07-19 12:50:03 |
A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category (lien direct) |
Benchmarks reveal better connection speeds and smaller memory footprint for Rustls library, compared to OpenSSL. |
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2019-07-19 11:15:05 |
Google cleans out stalker, spyware apps from Play Store (lien direct) |
Google is making a stand on apps designed for tracking employees, partners, and children. |
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2019-07-18 22:49:02 |
93% of porn sites leak data to a third-party (lien direct) |
New academic research reveals the extent of user tracking on top adult sites. |
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2019-07-18 19:38:01 |
Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic (lien direct) |
Kazakh government first wanted to intercept all HTTPS traffic way back in 2016, but they backed off after several lawsuits. |
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2019-07-18 17:13:02 |
Bulgaria\'s hacked database is now available on hacking forums (lien direct) |
Half of the database, to be exact, the half the hacker released to local reporters over the last weekend. |
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2019-07-18 13:56:00 |
Slack resets passwords for 1% of its users because of 2015 hack (lien direct) |
Company said it received a batch of compromised credentials related to the 2015 hack via its bug bounty program. |
Hack
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2019-07-18 13:12:00 |
Slack to reset passwords for tens of thousands of users (lien direct) |
Slack says passwords compromised in malware infections and past breaches at other companies. |
Malware
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2019-07-18 07:35:03 |
Microsoft notified 10,000 victims of nation-state attacks (lien direct) |
Most of the attacks came from state-sponsored hacking groups in Iran, North Korea, and Russia. |
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2019-07-17 23:26:00 |
Microsoft demos ElectionGuard technology for securing electronic voting machines (lien direct) |
New ElectionGuard SDK to be open-sourced on GitHub; provided for free to voting machine vendors. |
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2019-07-17 22:31:00 |
Gigabyte and Lenovo servers impacted by common BMC firmware flaws (lien direct) |
Two different bugs, EOLs, and a complex supply chain make patching a nightmare. |
Patching
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2019-07-17 14:00:00 |
Hong Kong malvertiser blamed for malicious ads that invaded Microsoft apps (lien direct) |
Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app. |
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2019-07-17 14:00:00 |
Malware framework creates one billion fake Google Adsense ad impressions in only a few months (lien direct) |
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Yandex are all targets. |
Malware
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2019-07-17 13:04:01 |
Malicious Python libraries targeting Linux servers removed from PyPI (lien direct) |
Security firm scanned over one million PyPI packages and found three backdoored libraries. |
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2019-07-17 11:31:01 |
Major Chinese Android developer booted from Google Play for drowning users in adverts (lien direct) |
The ads were disruptive enough to render Android smartphones close to “unusable.” |
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2019-07-17 10:49:02 |
Microsoft to explore using Rust (lien direct) |
Rust has been gaining in popularity and Microsoft intends to see if it can hold up to its demands. |
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2019-07-17 08:00:00 |
Bluetooth exploit can track and identify iOS, Microsoft mobile device users (lien direct) |
Any modern device sporting Bluetooth connectivity may be impacted with the exception of Android. |
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2019-07-17 04:15:00 |
OpenNIC drops support for .bit domain names after rampant malware abuse (lien direct) |
OpenNIC maintainers also worried about cyber-criminals hosting child pornography on .bit domains. |
Malware
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2019-07-16 20:25:04 |
Firefox follows in Chrome\'s footsteps and will mark all HTTP pages as \'not secure\' (lien direct) |
Mozilla will mark all HTTP pages as "not secure" starting with Firefox 70, to be released in October. |
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2019-07-16 14:59:00 |
Permission-greedy apps delayed Android 6 upgrade so they could harvest more user data (lien direct) |
App devs delayed upgrading apps, but lost in the long run due to more negative reviews and less Play Store visibility. |
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2019-07-16 13:00:00 |
2019\'s tech, security, and authentication trends (lien direct) |
We take a look at the top tech, cybersecurity, and authentication trends as revealed today by the Duo Security's 2019 Trusted Access Report, which includes data from 24 million devices, one million apps and services, and billions of authentications. |
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2019-07-16 11:31:02 |
Sprint says hackers breached customer accounts via Samsung website (lien direct) |
Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. |
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2019-07-16 09:14:00 |
Google to remove Chrome\'s built-in XSS protection (XSS Auditor) (lien direct) |
XSS Auditor became too inefficient at blocking XSS attacks, and a chore to maintain. |
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2019-07-16 06:25:00 |
Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media (lien direct) |
Source of the data breach appears to be the country's National Revenue Agency. |
Data Breach
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2019-07-12 19:14:00 |
Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack (lien direct) |
Avast: More than 180,000 routers in Brazil had their DNS settings changed in Q1 2019. |
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2019-07-12 13:52:05 |
Sweden and UK\'s surveillance programs on trial at the European Court of Human Rights (lien direct) |
Last chance for Europe's top human rights court to rule against dragnet surveillance programs. |
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2019-07-12 08:59:03 |
Bitpoint cryptocurrency exchange hacked for $32 million (lien direct) |
$23 million of the stolen funds belonged to Bitpoint's customers; the rest belonged to the exchange itself. |
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2019-07-12 08:56:03 |
Engineer flees to China after stealing source code of US train firm (lien direct) |
The 57-year-old is now considered a fugitive. |
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2019-07-11 18:34:01 |
US mayors group adopts resolution not to pay any more ransoms to hackers (lien direct) |
US mayors vow not to give in to more extortion demands following ransomware attacks. |
Ransomware
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2019-07-11 14:10:05 |
Hacked surveillance firm pitches NYC with invasive camera tech to track driver journeys (lien direct) |
Scanning technology already in use at the Mexican border was pitched as a way to build profiles of driver habits. |
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2019-07-11 12:28:00 |
German banks are moving away from SMS one-time passcodes (lien direct) |
New EU legislation might help kill SMS 2FA / 2SV / OTP. |
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2019-07-11 11:20:04 |
McAfee plots return to public markets with IPO (lien direct) |
McAfee is not the only firm throwing its hat into the cybersecurity IPO ring. |
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2019-07-11 09:30:00 |
Recent Windows zero-day used by Buhtrap gang for cyber-espionage (lien direct) |
Old school cybercrime-focused hacker group returns with cyber-espionage campaign. |
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2019-07-11 09:14:04 |
New Magecart attacks leverage misconfigured S3 buckets to infect over 17K sites (lien direct) |
Web card skimming group takes a "pray-and-spray" shotgun approach to breaking into online stores. |
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2019-07-10 21:03:00 |
Pale Moon says hackers added malware to older browser versions (lien direct) |
Server breach at Pale Moon browser project goes undetected for 18 months. |
Malware
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2019-07-10 18:18:00 |
Academics steal data from air-gapped systems via a keyboard\'s LEDs (lien direct) |
CTRL-ALT-LED technique can exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems using Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock LEDs. |
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2019-07-10 13:00:00 |
New Android malware replaces legitimate apps with ad-infested doppelgangers (lien direct) |
New "Agent Smith" malware operation is preparing to invade the Google Play Store. |
Malware
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2019-07-10 12:00:01 |
New versions of FinFisher mobile spyware discovered in Myanmar (lien direct) |
New and upgraded versions of FinFisher spyware for Android and iOS discovered in 20 countries. |
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2019-07-10 11:38:05 |
Troll lawyer uploads porn to Pirate Bay, extorts downloaders to settle \'copyright\' claims (lien direct) |
The lawyer deliberately released copyrighted material in order to coerce downloaders to settle -- or be publicly humiliated. |
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2019-07-10 10:23:05 |
Adobe tackles vulnerabilities in Dreamweaver, Experience Manager, Bridge (lien direct) |
July's patch update has landed and Flash is nowhere to be seen. |
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2019-07-09 23:12:04 |
Hackers breached Greece\'s top-level domain registrar (lien direct) |
Sea Turtle group returns with new attacks; continues DNS hijacking spree. |
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2019-07-09 20:31:00 |
Vulnerabilities found in GE anesthesia machines (lien direct) |
GE recommends not connecting vulnerable anesthesia machines to hospital networks. |
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2019-07-09 20:00:00 |
Mozilla bans surveillance vendor from Firefox certificate whitelist (lien direct) |
Mozilla declines DarkMatter's application to have its root certificates included in Firefox's root store. |
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2019-07-09 18:15:02 |
Microsoft July 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day exploited by Russian hackers (lien direct) |
Microsoft patches 77 security flaws, including 15 rated "critical." |
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2019-07-09 16:22:02 |
US Coast Guard warns about malware designed to disrupt ships\' computer systems (lien direct) |
US Coast Guard also shares a list of cybersecurity best practices for commercial vessels. |
Malware
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2019-07-09 14:00:00 |
Marriott faces $123 million GDPR fine in the UK for last year\'s data breach (lien direct) |
The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways. |
Data Breach
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2019-07-09 13:52:01 |
Philadelphia Federal Credit Union customer accounts pilfered by fraudsters (lien direct) |
Some customers lost hundreds of dollars during the weekend's ATM fraud spree. |
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2019-07-09 12:43:01 |
Facebook transfer of data from EU to US shores argued in European high court (lien direct) |
The EU's highest court will debate whether the practice leaves EU citizen open to US surveillance. |
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2019-07-09 11:18:05 |
Fake eFax emails are now spreading Dridex Trojan, RMS RAT (lien direct) |
Phishing attachments are dropping a dangerous combination of Trojan and remote access tool. |
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