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Hyatt Admits to Finding Malware on Its Payment Systems

If you’ve stayed at a Hyatt recently, you may want to check your bank statements. The chain has admitted that it’s identified malware on the computers that are used to operate payment processing for its hotels. An investigations into the attacks is said to be “ongoing.” In a statement issued by Hyatt’s Chuck Floyd, its…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Hacker Charged With Stealing SSNs, Nude Pics, and Scripts From 130 Celebrities

The Fappening made headlines over a year ago, and Feds are still hunting down the hackers responsible for releasing hundreds of naked celebrity photos. Now there’s been a new celebrity hack, one that might be slightly more terrifying. This week, a 23-year-old was charged with breaking into 130 celebrities’ personal accounts by stealing passwords and…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

The TSA’s Full-Body Scanners Are Now Compulsory ‘For Some Passengers’

Until now, you had the ability to opt out of a trip through the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners and instead undergo a thorough physical screening. But a new document issued by Homeland Security allows the TSA to make the scans mandatory ‘for some passengers.’ Slashgear reports that a document was released last week that…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Iranian Cyber Spies Reportedly Hacked Into a Dam Near New York City

Iranian hackers gained access to the control system at the Bowman Avenue Dam in 2013. The dam is some twenty miles from New York City, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yikes. While there’s no apparent damage related to the hack, it’s alarming for a number of reasons. The scariest bit is that it reportedly…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Hillary Clinton Says She Wants a Manhattan Project for Encryption. The Fuck?

Hillary Clinton suggested that tech companies work together with the government to create a “a Manhattan-like project” at tonight’s Democratic national debate. The Manhattan Project, if you a need a refresher, was a research and development collaboration between the US, UK, and Canada to develop weapons during World War II, culminating in the development of…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Latest Hack Like “Stealing a Master Key to Get Into Any Government Building”

Juniper Networks, a US government subcontractor, has been compromised in a hack that could have exposed countless classified communications over the past three years. The hackers, who have yet to be officially identified, introduced code to create a backdoor on systems commonly used by government employees — many of whom presumably have high security clearances.…

Privacy & Security Matt Novak

Blackberry’s CEO Gives You a Great Reason to Buy an iPhone

Cops and spies alike are up in arms lately over companies like Apple using uncrackable encryption on their devices. But Blackberry, whose clickity keyboards can still be heard in the halls of many government bureaucracy, doesn’t think criminals deserve privacy. The struggling Canadian company’s CEO recently published a blog post with the bold headline, “The…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Six Times the GOP Candidates Got Encryption and Security Wrong Last Night

The GOP presidential debate last night focused on foreign policy, which meant lots of talk on how to DESTROY ISIS. It immediately devolved into a sneering Fear Off as each candidate attempted to out-scaremonger frontrunner and Ayn Rand cantaloupe Donald Trump. Trump blithely confirmed that he would violate the Geneva convention by killing children in…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Safeway Stores Have Been Hit By Card Skimming Attacks

If you’ve shopped at Safeway in California or Colorado recently, you may want to check your bank accounts. The supermarket chain has admitted that it’s investigating card skimming attacks at several of its stores in those states. Krebs on Security reports that financial institutions are investigating a series of attacks that seem to have taken…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Man Arrested in UK Suspected of Horrible VTech Hack

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of “unauthorised access” to a computer over the VTech hack, which saw the personal information of nearly 6.4 million children stolen from servers. The BBC reports that the man was arrested in Berkshire following an investigation by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit.…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Dumb Human Errors Can Undermine the Security of Encrypted Communication Apps

You might think that because you use an expensive secure phone or encrypted messaging app like Signal your privacy is guaranteed. Sadly, you may have overestimated the abilities of the humans at each end, whose screw-ups when using the schemes can render them redundant. Technology Review reports that experiments performed at the University of Alabama…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Julian Assange To Be Questioned by Swedish Authorities in His London Panic Room

An agreement between Ecuadorian representatives, Julian Assange and Swedish authorities has apparently been reached, that may see him questioned by Swedish police without having to leave the safety of his diplomatic immunity bunker in London. The charges against Assange stretch back a long way, back to before the more sympathetic (and likeable?) Edward Snowden took…

Privacy & Security Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

Twitter Is Warning Users They May Be Targets of ‘State-Sponsored’ Hacks

Twitter has sent an email to a number of its users to explain that their accounts may have been the target of “state-sponsored hackers.” Coldhak, a Canadian non-profit, received a copy of the email and posted it to Twitter. The email explains: “As a precaution, we are alerting you that your Twitter account is one…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

A Tor Alternative Uses Spam Traffic to Hide Messages

Tor is the venerable messaging system used by whistleblowers and drug dealers alike to hide on the internet, and as a result, it gets some attention from law enforcement. A new system proposed by a team of MIT resesarchers offers an alternative, using fake traffic to hide the real messages within. Called Vuvuzela, it uses…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

North Korea Says It Has a Hydrogen Bomb, Experts Call BS

East Asia’s secluded dictatorship says it’s got the technology to make monstrously destructive hydrogen bombs. Fat chance, say some defense experts. Leader Kim Jong Un apparently told North Korean state media on Thursday that the nation has turned into “a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate [a] self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend…

Privacy & Security Bryan Lufkin

Ships Have Black Boxes—And Apparently, They’re a Cinch to Hack

Voice, navigation, and radar data aboard ships are all at risk, according to an expert who claims that some devices that contain sensitive ship information just aren’t secure enough. This could be good news for pirates and spies, and bad news for the good guys. Motherboard reports that large boats, like cruise or cargo ships,…

Privacy & Security Bryan Lufkin

Panty-Loving Thief Arrested After Using Instagram Geotagging to Hunt Co-Ed Undies

Here’s another reason to turn geotagging off: Police say a burglary suspect arrested in California last week used Instagram and Facebook’s geotagged posts to track his targets and steal their underwear. Arturo Galvan, 44, was arrested on suspicion of six burglaries last Thursday. “He seems to be fixated on college-aged women,” Fullerton Police Department Lt.…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

You Can Now Authenticate Logins From Your Smartwatch

Two-factor authentication is the best way to avoid getting hacked, and Google’s offline-capable Authenticator app is probably the most convenient second authentication factor. With the latest version of the Android app, Google’s putting that convenience on your wrist. Compatible Android Wear devices can now run the Authenticator app, meaning you don’t have to fish your…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

Proposed French Law Would Ban TOR In Response to Terror Attacks

According to French newspaper Le Monde, authorities in Paris are considereing banning the use of TOR, a service that anonymises users on the internet. It would be one of a range of measures passed in response to last month’s terror attacks, and also a difficult-to-enforce attack on internet privacy. Le Monde obtained an internal document…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

The Seriously Wacky Way Cosmologists Say We Could Encrypt Data

The Big Bang that created the Universe left traces of itself everywhere—an afterglow known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). You’ve probably never thought to ask whether there’s a practical use for the CMB, but lo and behold, cosmologists found it: data encryption. Many computer algorithms have been written to generate the large, random encryption…

Privacy & Security Maddie Stone

Hyatt Admits to Finding Malware on Its Payment Systems

Hacker Charged With Stealing SSNs, Nude Pics, and Scripts From 130 Celebrities

The TSA’s Full-Body Scanners Are Now Compulsory ‘For Some Passengers’

Iranian Cyber Spies Reportedly Hacked Into a Dam Near New York City

Hillary Clinton Says She Wants a Manhattan Project for Encryption. The Fuck?

Latest Hack Like “Stealing a Master Key to Get Into Any Government Building”

Blackberry’s CEO Gives You a Great Reason to Buy an iPhone

Six Times the GOP Candidates Got Encryption and Security Wrong Last Night

Safeway Stores Have Been Hit By Card Skimming Attacks

Man Arrested in UK Suspected of Horrible VTech Hack

Dumb Human Errors Can Undermine the Security of Encrypted Communication Apps

Julian Assange To Be Questioned by Swedish Authorities in His London Panic Room

Twitter Is Warning Users They May Be Targets of ‘State-Sponsored’ Hacks

A Tor Alternative Uses Spam Traffic to Hide Messages

North Korea Says It Has a Hydrogen Bomb, Experts Call BS

Ships Have Black Boxes—And Apparently, They’re a Cinch to Hack

Panty-Loving Thief Arrested After Using Instagram Geotagging to Hunt Co-Ed Undies

You Can Now Authenticate Logins From Your Smartwatch

Proposed French Law Would Ban TOR In Response to Terror Attacks

The Seriously Wacky Way Cosmologists Say We Could Encrypt Data

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