Cybersecurity

Report: Facebook Really Is Connecting People, Specifically ISIS

Facebook is connecting more than just distant relatives who post too much about their children, at least per a recent study that concludes it is connecting new affiliates to the Islamic State’s digital networks. According to the Telegraph, researchers with the Counter Extremism Project analyzed the social media habits of roughly 1,000 ISIS supporters in…

Social Media Tom McKay May 6

Georgia Could Pass a Vaguely Written ‘Unauthorized Computer Access’ Law This Week

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has until Tuesday to decide whether to approve a dubious bill that would make it illegal to access a computer or network “without authority,” Wired reported, in what looks an awful lot like legislators trying to make something they don’t understand a crime. Here’s the backstory: The state government and its…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay May 5

Researchers Find Mysterious Russia-Linked Malware That Hijacks Anti-Theft Software Lojack

Security researchers are warning that malware with suspected links to Russian cyber-espionage group and alleged Democratic National Committee hackers Fancy Bear is turning up in installations of Lojack, an anti-computer theft program used by many corporations to guard their assets. On Tuesday, researchers with Arbor Networks’ ASERT lab said in a new report that they…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay May 2

GitHub Tells Some Users It Accidentally Stored Their Passwords in Plain Text But Hey, NBD

Code repository GitHub warned “a select number of users” on Tuesday that due to a flaw in its password reset system, the company had stored their passwords in plain text on internal logs. Per BleepingComputer, the site says this security flaw was discovered during “regular auditing” and no one but a small number of GitHub…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay May 1

WhatsApp Co-Founder Jan Koum Quits After Internal Battle With Facebook Over User Privacy

Jan Koum, the billionaire CEO of Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp, is leaving the company following disputes over “the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption,” the Washington Post reported on Monday. Koum will additionally step down from Facebook’s board, and was in the process of informing other…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 30

Report: Trump Using Personal Cell Phone a Lot More, Just in Case His Calls Weren’t Insecure Enough Already

The number of people in this administration who seem to think they’re much smarter than all those nerds warning them about potential security vulnerabilities boggles the mind. So of course President Donald Trump is increasingly ditching government-approved communications methods to instead use his personal device, CNN reported on Monday. “He uses it a lot more…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 23

Florida Police Allegedly Crash Funeral Home to Unlock Phone With Slain Man’s Fingerprints

Largo, Florida police detectives entered a funeral home in Clearwater and attempted to unlock the phone of a man killed in March by another officer at a traffic stop using the deceased man’s hands, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Victoria Armstrong, the fiance of late Linus F. Phillip, told the paper she felt “so disrespected…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 21

DOJ’s Amber Alert Website Is Redirecting Visitors to Hardcore Porn [Update: It’s Worse Than We Thought]

A website run by the US Justice Department and used to gather information about missing and abducted children is redirecting visitors to porn sites with names such as “schoolgirl porn” and “ungrateful huge boobs Indian wife being a slut,” Gizmodo has discovered. A redirect bug on the AmberAlert.gov allows anyone to create backlinks on the…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Apr 17

How Did the Pentagon Quantify This Bizarre Statistic on ‘Russian Trolls’?

As Donald Trump’s administration, backed by France and the UK, launched a series of missile attacks on Syrian installations allegedly used in the production or deployment of chemical weapons this weekend—and the president bizarrely tweeted “Mission Accomplished!” in a worrying signal with regards to his strategic insight—the question of whether Russia would retaliate on behalf…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 14

Uber Escapes With No FTC Fines Over 2016 Data Breach It Paid $100,000 to Cover Up

The Federal Trade Commission will not impose fines on ride-sharing giant Uber over the massive data breach it paid hackers $100,000 to cover up, CNN Money reported this week. According to CNN, the FTC has agreed to expand a prior settlement concerning Uber’s data practices and a breach in 2014 to include the 2016 breach,…

Tech News Tom McKay Apr 14

Reddit: We’ve Found 1,000 Suspected Russian Troll Accounts, But Most of Them Sucked at Getting Upvotes

Reddit says it has identified and plans to purge 944 accounts suspected to be tied to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian troll farm that has been linked to an alleged campaign to spread disinformation and propaganda on US social media sites before the 2016 elections. In a post to the site’s announcements subreddit,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 10

Facebook’s Largest Black Lives Matter Page Was Allegedly an Australian Scam

What appeared to be the biggest “Black Lives Matter” page on Facebook was actually “a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia,” CNN Tech reported on Monday, and it managed to raise over $100,000 while sending some of that money to Australian bank accounts. Just as troubling, CNN reported that Facebook initially…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 9

Here Is Facebook’s Dubious Plan to Prevent Its 2016 Election Catastrophe From Happening Again

Pressure has been mounting on Facebook and its leadership to make big privacy changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal—in which it lost control over extensive data on what it now says are 87 million users—and after weeks of hedging and minor tweaks around the margins, the company has begun to make other…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 7

Good News, We’re Getting Two Congressional Hearings With Mark Zuckerberg for the Price of One

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg—who has (reluctantly) become the face of the company’s response to the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal—will testify not just in front of the House Energy and Commerce Commitee next week as previously reported, but a joint hearing of the Senate as well. Per CBS News, Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 4

Panera Bread’s Website Reportedly Left Millions of Customer Records Unprotected

Even your damn bread bowl is now a security risk. Panera Bread left the information of up to 37 million customers who signed up for delivery and other services including “names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer’s credit card number” in plain text format accessible via its web…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 2

Lord & Taylor and Saks Have Been Hacked to the Tune of Five Million Payment Card Accounts

Cybercriminals who ran off with info on five million debit and credit cards from Saks Fifth Avenue (including its discount brand) and Lord & Taylor databases appear to be preparing to sell them on the dark web, according to a Sunday report from Gemini Advisory. The majority of the stolen payment cards were taken from…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 1

The City of Atlanta Is Still Locked Out of Files Over a Week After SamSam Ransomware Attack

City officials in Atlanta, Georgia are still trying to recover 10 days after a ransomware attack on municipal computer systems hit at least five out of 13 departments, knocking out some city services and forcing others to revert to paper records. Per Reuters, over a week has passed since the SamSam ransomware began spreading throughout…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Apr 1

Boeing Says Suspected WannaCry Attack Only Hit ‘Small Number of Systems,’ Probably Not Planes

A South Carolina facility owned by aerospace and defense contracting giant Boeing was hit by a WannaCry attack on Wednesday, the Seattle Times reported, but the company is now trying to tamp down fears that the dreaded ransomware is back on the rise after it was only barely snuffed out last year. Per the Times,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Mar 28

At Least Two Flaws in Monero Could Make Some Transactions Partially Traceable

A flaw in ostensibly untraceable cryptocurrency Monero, which has picked up steam as market leader Bitcoin has stumbled in value, may make it possible to trace transactions—and since the entire history of Monero is encoded in its blockchain in what is now known to be a semi-vulnerable method, transactions that happened years ago could potentially…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Mar 28

A Bug in the iOS Camera App’s QR Code Reader Could Send iPhone Users to Malicious Websites

A vulnerability in the way iOS’ camera app handles QR codes could potentially result in users being unknowingly redirected to malicious destinations. Per 9to5Mac, security researcher Roman Mueller of Infosec recently discovered that a flaw in the camera app’s automatic QR code scanning function could result in it displaying a link and then sending users…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 26

Report: Facebook Really Is Connecting People, Specifically ISIS

Georgia Could Pass a Vaguely Written ‘Unauthorized Computer Access’ Law This Week

Researchers Find Mysterious Russia-Linked Malware That Hijacks Anti-Theft Software Lojack

GitHub Tells Some Users It Accidentally Stored Their Passwords in Plain Text But Hey, NBD

WhatsApp Co-Founder Jan Koum Quits After Internal Battle With Facebook Over User Privacy

Report: Trump Using Personal Cell Phone a Lot More, Just in Case His Calls Weren’t Insecure Enough Already

Florida Police Allegedly Crash Funeral Home to Unlock Phone With Slain Man’s Fingerprints

DOJ’s Amber Alert Website Is Redirecting Visitors to Hardcore Porn [Update: It’s Worse Than We Thought]

How Did the Pentagon Quantify This Bizarre Statistic on ‘Russian Trolls’?

Uber Escapes With No FTC Fines Over 2016 Data Breach It Paid $100,000 to Cover Up

Reddit: We’ve Found 1,000 Suspected Russian Troll Accounts, But Most of Them Sucked at Getting Upvotes

Facebook’s Largest Black Lives Matter Page Was Allegedly an Australian Scam

Here Is Facebook’s Dubious Plan to Prevent Its 2016 Election Catastrophe From Happening Again

Good News, We’re Getting Two Congressional Hearings With Mark Zuckerberg for the Price of One

Panera Bread’s Website Reportedly Left Millions of Customer Records Unprotected

Lord & Taylor and Saks Have Been Hacked to the Tune of Five Million Payment Card Accounts

The City of Atlanta Is Still Locked Out of Files Over a Week After SamSam Ransomware Attack

Boeing Says Suspected WannaCry Attack Only Hit ‘Small Number of Systems,’ Probably Not Planes

At Least Two Flaws in Monero Could Make Some Transactions Partially Traceable

A Bug in the iOS Camera App’s QR Code Reader Could Send iPhone Users to Malicious Websites

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