Month: August 2018
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New lawsuit shows your phone is unsafe at American borders
Originally published in Engadget. CBP = Customs and Border Profiling 1 / 3 Engadget (iPhone), Getty Images/iStockphoto (Bars), DHS (Logo) A recent case filed in federal court, in which an American woman had her iPhone seized and cracked by Customs and Border Protection in a New Jersey airport puts a whole new spin on the… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week Fortnite and Google face off, Politico smears DEF CON’s vote hacking intentions, ProPublica debunks major voting insecurity headlines, a House panel rips CVE a new one, Manafort misses the plea deal train, the FBI has been naughty about backdoors, that disgruntled ex-Tesla employee, and much more… Security royale A… Read more…
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About that Facebook trust ranking
Originally published in Engadget. The company no one trusts is… automating how it trusts users. 1 / 4 Bloomberg via Getty Images To the complete horror and amusement of those watching the grand experiment Facebook is doing on everyone, this week we found out the company is assigning a reputation score to users that ranks… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got anger at SentinelOne, Google’s deepening Location History hole, old man screams at Signal, sickening spousal spyware influence campaigns, Trump makes cyberwar easy, Russia stuck in a loop hacking US democracy, an alleged inside scoop on the FSB’s hacker recruitment, and more… More like copywrong A furor erupted… Read more…
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How Google’s location-tracking issue affects you
Originally published in Engadget. Watching Google watch us. 1 / 4 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee Watching Twitter and Facebook commit reputational suicide over the past 20 months has been as painful as it has been entertaining — entertaining in the sense that all anyone had to do was let the companies be themselves. The… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got bad DEF CON journalism, hotel security terrorized DEF CON attendees, a Pwnie Awards victory, analysis of QAnon’s “codes,” Facebook menaces about slow-killing the free press, a key Russian in Trump’s money circle got hacked, AI can de-anonymize coders now, and much more… No one expects the Caesar’s… Read more…
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Anonymous deals with its QAnon branding problem
Originally published in Engadget. A contagion of disinformation. 1 / 6 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee When you're a notorious hacking entity like Anonymous, and a pro-Trump conspiracy cult (QAnon) steals your branding (while claiming you're the impostor), the obvious thing to do is declare cyberwar. That's exactly what Anonymous did this past week in… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got a midterms vote-by-phone app “secured” by a testy blockchain startup, abuse of Twitter’s reporting function to ban a prominent security figure over nothing, John McAfee is our very own Giuliani, DEF CON’s incredible new community support resources, a UK hacker caught doing disinfo for the GRU, Anonymous… Read more…
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When your Uber driver is a spy
Originally published in Engadget. Another attack vector brought to you by the gig economy. 1 / 5 Illustration by D. Thomas Magee Like other migrating beasts, hackers travel huge distances for feeding, breeding, and breaking things every summer — at Defcon in Las Vegas. The way they move about the city is driven primarily by… Read more…
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Just another DEF CON guide
Originally published on Patreon. America’s premiere hacker conference is almost here: DEF CON 26 is August 9-12 at Caesar’s Palace and Flamingo, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Many people will be there early to attend Black Hat and BSides Las Vegas. There are lots of DEF CON guides out there; many are created to grab search… Read more…