Category: Security

How home assistants ruined us, an explanation

Post author By Randall
Post date December 31, 2019
Categories In ads, Advertising, alexa, Amazon, apple homepod, av, bad password, badpassword, data security, eavesdropping, echo, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google Assistant, Google Home, Home, infosec, Internet, internet of shit, Internet Of Things, iot, Lg, opinion, Samsung, Security, services, siri, smartthings, spying, Tech, veracode, vizio

[ad_1] Understandably, everyone is doing their introspection right now; their year- and decade-end summaries of what was most dreadful in tech, and what lead to this mess we’re all in. I can assure you that one of the key factors is what we have come to call The Internet of Shit and how we’ve embraced […]

ProtonMail debuts an encrypted calendar app

Post author By Randall
Post date December 31, 2019
Categories In calendar, encryption, gear, Internet, protonmail, Security, Tech

[ad_1] ProtonCalendar uses end-to-end encryption to keep your data private, with no third parties including ProtonMail able to see your events. It has the standard calendar features you would expect, such as the ability to create and delete events, to set reminders and to have events repeat daily, weekly or monthly. The calendar is available […]

Brazil hits Facebook with $1.6 million Cambridge Analytica fine

Post author By Randall
Post date December 31, 2019
Categories In brazil, breach, business, cambridge analytica, data, Entertainment, Facebook, fcc, fine, Privacy, Security, Tech

[ad_1] According to Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security, data belonging to some 443,000 Brazilian users was used for “at the very least, questionable” purposes. Some estimates suggest that up to 87 million people were affected by Facebook’s improper use of data globally — mostly in the US. In the grand scheme of things, […]

Wyze leaks personal data for 2.4 million security camera users

Post author By Randall
Post date December 30, 2019
Categories In data breach, gear, leak, Security, Tech, twelve security, wyze

[ad_1] The issue was uncovered by consulting firm Twelve Security, who announced that sensitive user data had been left exposed on the internet. This included a staggering array of personal information including email addresses, a list of cameras in the house, WiFi SSIDs and even health information including height, weight, gender, bone density and more. […]

Amazon, Ring face lawsuit over alleged security camera hacks

Post author By Randall
Post date December 27, 2019
Categories In Amazon, class action, gear, Home, Internet, lawsuit, ring, Security, security camera, smart home, Tech

[ad_1] Orange also claimed that Ring’s response was evidence of the company blaming customers. It told Orange that there was “no evidence” someone had hacked the firm’s infrastructure, and that his incident may be the result of a breach at a “non-Ring service” where the perpetrators reused info to sign into Ring accounts. In other […]

Huawei denies receiving billions in financial aid from Chinese government

Post author By Randall
Post date December 26, 2019
Categories In business, China, Cybersecurity, gear, Huawei, Mobile, Politics, Security, spying, Tech

[ad_1] Using a combination of publicly-available records, the WSJ estimates Huawei received $46 billion in loans and lines of credit from state-controlled lenders, as well as $1.6 billion in grants. The company was also able to save as much as $25 billion in taxes between 2008 and 2018 thanks to incentives aimed at China’s tech […]

Pentagon tells military personnel to avoid commercial DNA tests

Post author By Randall
Post date December 25, 2019
Categories In Dna Testing, gear, pentagon, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The Department of Defense likely released the memo just before Christmas, since purchasable DNA test kits are now seen as some sort of hot gift items for the holidays. In addition, the memo notes DNA test companies have been targeting military members with discounts. Pentagon spokesperson Cmdr. Sean Robertson has confirmed to The New […]

Twitter flaw let a researcher match 17 million phone numbers with users

Post author By Randall
Post date December 24, 2019
Categories In flaw, gear, Internet, Mobile, Privacy, Security, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] The users were in countries like France, Greece and Turkey, and some of them were politicians and officials. TechCrunch found a senior Israeli politician, for instance. Balic didn’t notify Twitter, but did warn some users directly. Twitter blocked his effort on December 20th and hasn’t publicly acknowledged the flaw so far. We’ve asked Twitter […]

Apple will start enforcing its Mac app security policy in February

Post author By Randall
Post date December 24, 2019
Categories In Apple, apps, catalina, gear, Mac, mac app store, macos, macos catalina, personal computing, personalcomputing, Security, software, Tech

[ad_1] The company has required notarization for apps (which gives them a Developer ID) since macOS Mojave 10.14.5, but warnings will soon become error messages for Catalina users. Apple had originally intended to clamp down when Catalina was available, but decided on a transition period to help developers adapt. As you might imagine, this is […]

Three people sentenced for running $100 million malware crime network

Post author By Randall
Post date December 22, 2019
Categories In crime, cybercrime, gear, georgia, goznym, Internet, law, malware, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The network operated for years, using GozNym to compromise over 41,000 computers and swipe money from targets’ bank accounts. It started falling apart when Nikolov was caught and extradited to the US in December 2016, although he didn’t plead guilty until April 2019. The FBI said these sentences showed that it wouldn’t let online […]