Year: 2019
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got Trump’s mass surveillance plans to please the NRA, Apple and Google security fight sadness, a massive privacy issue with Telegram, the kid who tried to hack Trump’s tax returns, the DMV is selling our data to sketchballs, scraping is not a crime, and more. This curated news… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’re looking at post-mortems on Jack’s big hack and Google’s Project Zero report on two (!) years of iPhone attacks, Facebook shrugs at theft and use of its Free Basics key, video of voting machines flipping votes, the $9 million WhatsApp hacking van, Apple tried to go “on background”… Read more…
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That Apple Card may not be as private as you think
Originally published in Engadget. Privilege has its privileges. 1 / 2 Koren Shadmi When it came time to pay for dinner with my friend and his wife the other night, he said, “No, let us get this.” It was a kind gesture. When you don’t have to pay for a meal out in San Francisco,… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week, Black Hat sued by snake oil experts, IoT security still pees into the wind, 2020 election ransomware warnings, the new online US census seems pretty hackable, the challenges of faking your death, Elon Musk’s rocket experiments are terrorizing nearby residents, the first cybercrime done in orbit (that we know… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Update 8/20 5pm: Gizmodo Managing Editor Andrew Couts reached out with a statement about G/O Media and encrypted communications, clarifying that this information was from a leaked draft of a staff handbook and that Gizmodo’s intent is to continue using secure communications. I’ve included their complete statement in the item below.… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week, a lot of interesting news from DEF CON, plus biohackers making Johnny Mnemonic come true, malware on connected cameras, millions of AT&T phones unlocked thanks to bribed employees, and much more. What you read here is only possible with the support of Patrons. Chipping in means I can also… Read more…
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DEF CON: Just the tips
Originally published on Patreon. Right now the world’s biggest hacker conference DEF CON 27 is in Las Vegas like playful malware, spreading itself across the gigantic hotels of Paris, Ballys, and Planet Hollywood (August 8-11). That’s a lot of walking and a lot of expensive taxis. That’s a lot of hangry. And it’s a lot… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got DEF CON and the coming infosec clickbait flood, Apple’s rumored bug bounty, a contest to rid the world of bad hacker stock art, wiperworms are on the rise, we find out how many cars need to be hacked to freeze Manhattan, Amazon is coaching law enforcement on… Read more…
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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…