Top security and privacy TED Talks from 2018
Ninety-five percent of the time when I watch videos about cybersecurity, hacking, privacy, or surveillance, they are videos from security conferences. In fact, some of the best out there are TED...
View ArticleApple disables Group FaceTime after eavesdropping bug discovered
Apple disabled Group FaceTime after a major security bug was discovered yesterday — Data Privacy Day. The bug allowed for major spying; users making a FaceTime call could eavesdrop on the iPhone of...
View ArticleFacebook secretly paid users $20 a month to use VPN spying app
Facebook has been “secretly” paying $20 a month to some users ages 13 to 35 to install and use a VPN app that requires installing a root certificate and thereby handing over every bit of data from...
View ArticleHijacked Nest devices highlight the insecurity of the IoT
People who purchase Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as Nest thermostats and security cameras, likely don't realize the potential problems that can arise if the services go down, like they did...
View ArticleNest Secure had a secret microphone, can now be a Google Assistant
If your IoT device secretly contained a microphone, which was previously undocumented, would you be happy when the device maker announced an over-the-air update that can enable the microphone for...
View ArticleVendor allegedly assaults security researcher who disclosed massive...
File this under how a vendor should not react when researchers tell them they discovered a massive security hole in their product.The vendor is Atrient, the product is PowerKiosk, and the flaw allows...
View ArticleAndroid phones can be hacked remotely by viewing malicious PNG image
Your Android could be pwned by simply viewing an innocent-looking image – be it from browsing the internet or an image received via text – according to the Android Security Bulletin issued this month....
View ArticlePopular electric scooters can be remotely hacked
Beware, Xiaomi M365 scooters riders, as security researchers say the scooters can be remotely hacked from up to 100 meters away to slam on the brakes or to accelerate.Security researchers from...
View ArticleDisastrous cyber attack on email provider wipes US servers and backups
Some cyber attacks are so disastrous that there’s no coming back from them. Email provider VFEmail worried that was the case when it said a hacker caused “catastrophic destruction” on Monday by...
View Article2.7M recorded medical calls, audio files left unprotected on web
“Your call is very important to us,” you often hear while being put on hold. But calls were clearly not important to the Swedish Healthcare Guide service – at least not important enough to protect the...
View ArticleNorth Korean hackers target Russian-based companies
For the first time, the North Korean APT Lazarus group seems to be participating in coordinated attacks against Russian-based companies. According to CheckPoint Research, the attacks over the past...
View ArticleMeet the man-in-the-room attack: Hackers can invisibly eavesdrop on Bigscreen...
Meet the new man-in-the-room attack, which exploited vulnerabilities in the Bigscreen virtual reality (VR) app, allowing attackers to invisibly eavesdrop in VR rooms. Attackers could also exploit the...
View ArticleBare-metal cloud servers vulnerable to Cloudborne flaw
Firmware protection firm Eclypsium reported that hackers can use firmware backdoor implants on bare-metal cloud servers to gain persistence even after the next customer rents the bare-metal server...
View ArticleRansomware attacks hit Florida ISP, Australian cardiology group
After Florida ISP Network Tallahassee was hit with a ransomware attack, the broadband provider reportedly paid a $6,000 ransom. Details of the attack – such the type of ransomware and how many...
View ArticleDow Jones watchlist of high-risk businesses, people found on unsecured database
Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected 4.4GB Elasticsearch database chock-full of more than 2.4 million records of people and businesses considered to be high-risk by Dow Jones. A...
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