Month: July 2019
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Here’s how AG Barr is going to get encryption 'backdoors'
Originally published in Engadget. Here we go again. 1 / 2 Illustration by Koren Shadmi If you heard the reverberation of a few thousand heads exploding last week, it was the sound of information security professionals reacting to US Attorney General Barr saying that Big Tech “can and must” put backdoors into encryption. In his… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got an Amazon employee nailed for the Capital One breach, there are disturbing portents of future US election hacking, MalwareTech avoids the pokey, McAfee banged a whale, the DEF CON schedule is live, AG Barr is a backdoor man with major consent issues, and much, much more. Who’s… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got the Slack hack coming back to haunt its IPO, a contractor for Russia’s FSB got royally owned, the Con Queen of Hollywood is out of control and getting sexual, I’ve got some personal security alerts for you, the UK is peddling surveillance wares to Hong Kong authorities,… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week: CNN drops docs on Assange’s election-meddling ops, Trump’s citizen data grab, cyber sheriff Rudy Giuliani parties with Iranian terrorist trolls, Peter Thiel calls for Google’s head on a platter, a whole lotta election systems are running on Windows 7, and unfortunately, there’s more. WikiLeaked The CNN exclusive report detailing… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week, Zoom camera app is outed as creepware, it’s apparently ‘voting security action week’ in the US — while Georgia’s election officials lied to a judge about server evidence — Queercon needs our help, Kia pushes faraday cages for its key fobs, British Airways will pay dearly for its breach,… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got a new war on encryption, companies downplaying SIM swap attacks, Equifax’s CIO (who profited off his knowledge of the breach) is going to jail, Instagram’s chief promises it doesn’t spy on users, GrubHub is snatching restaurant domains out from under its users, the social media habits of… Read more…