Month: June 2019
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Facebook’s Libra brought to you by Black Mirror, the internet goes down because it’s a mess, a hacker dropped a crime-y USB stick while doing more crimes, Hannity’s cringey thirst-texts to Manafort, NASA has been hacked a lot, and much more. A boot stamping on the blockchain forever Engadget pitched me… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week a SIM swap attack shows us companies don’t care, the NYT’s Russia-implant story gets weird, Samsung gets dragged for giving customers the McAfee virus, how Hong Kong protesters erased their digital footprints, Venmo shrugs at customer transactions made public, and much more. All this for magic internet money? Things… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week Facebook removed any meaningful search of its platform to prevent ‘future privacy scandals,’ Google/YouTube got pulled into the Roger Stone case, CBP admitted its border surveillance contractor got massively hacked, a treasure trove of threat research came out from behind a paywall, Tinder matched with the Russian government’s surveillance… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week Facebook says use of Facebook forfeits its users’ right to privacy, NYT insults researchers while the NSA disputes the NYT’s claims about EternalBlue, Google won Facebook’s CTF and pranked Facebook in the process, and more. Talk about consent issues This past week, Facebook has been in court trying to… Read more…