Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers ~tech privacy security Article 547 words 5 votes
Helping people spot the spoofs: A URL experiment ~tech google security internet Article 393 words 7 votes
Norway has blamed Russia for a cyberattack on the email system in the parliament in August – Moscow has rejected the claim, calling it a serious and wilful provocation ~tech security.cyber Article 39 words 6 votes
Hacking Apple for 3 months - 55 vulnerabilities discovered, with $288,500 in bug bounties awarded ~comp security Article 9230 words 10 votes
EARN IT Act introduced in US House of Representatives ~tech internet security privacy Article 247 words 37 votes
Druva introduces software as a service data protection for Kubernetes ~tech security Article 547 words 4 votes
Escaping the dark forest - Rescuing over $9.6 million worth of Ethereum from a vulnerable smart contract ~tech security Article 2510 words 8 votes
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server ~tech microsoft security Article 613 words 12 votes
You're going to be using confidential computing sooner rather than later ~tech security Article 1620 words 8 votes
Ransomware attack at German hospital leads to death of patient ~comp security Article 631 words 11 votes
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online ~tech privacy security internet Video 1:08:34, published Aug 22 2020 5 votes
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number ~tech social media security Article 8335 words 32 votes
Online voting is much more difficult to do securely, and a fundamental problem with the concept is that most voters won't be able to understand whether it's secure or not ~tech security Article 21 votes
An exploration of Project Zero Issue 2046, a seemingly unexploitable and simple bug in the V8 JavaScript engine that turns out to be exploitable in a very complex manner ~comp security Article 6983 words 7 votes
Malware in the wild using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to pull payload ~tech security Article 984 words 8 votes
Denmark suspends Lars Findsen, head of the country's foreign intelligence service – Danish Defense Intelligence Service had initiated operations that were contrary to Danish law ~news denmark politics law Article 267 words 9 votes
Why and where you should plant your flag ~tech security Article 1925 words, published Aug 12 2020 12 votes
Former Chief Security Officer for Uber charged with obstruction of justice for attempted cover-up of 2016 hack that compromised data from millions of users and drivers ~tech privacy security Article 956 words 9 votes
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams ~tech google security Article 634 words 16 votes
NSA and FBI warn that previously undisclosed Drovorub malware for Linux threatens national security ~tech linux security.national Article 957 words 22 votes
Achilles: Over 400 vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon DSP chip, threatening the security of hundreds of millions of Android devices ~tech android security Article 1010 words, published Aug 6 2020 17 votes
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout ~tech microsoft social media security.cyber Article 666 words 5 votes
Reddit moderator accounts compromised in coordinated hack, hundreds of subreddits vandalized ~tech security social media Link 29 votes
Reversing Lyft’s ride history API to analyze 6 years worth of rides ~comp security Article 643 words, published Jul 3 2020 4 votes
20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server ~tech security Article 938 words 20 votes
GitLab Support will no longer process MFA resets for free accounts as of August 15th, 2020 - make sure you have a valid backup recovery method set up ~comp security Article 411 words 14 votes
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns ~tech social media security.national Article 724 words 11 votes
Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies ~tech security social media Article 1094 words 34 votes
More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts ~tech security social media Article 820 words, published Jul 24 2020 8 votes
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4000 unsecured databases ~tech security Article 711 words 14 votes
Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack ~tech security Article 524 words 16 votes
A timeline of Wednesday's epic Twitter hack, and some clues about who may have been behind it ~tech security social media Article 1437 words 19 votes
Twilio's TaskRouter JavaScript SDK was in a world-writeable S3 bucket, and had what appears to be a precursor to a payment-card skimmer inserted for about 12 hours ~comp security Article 552 words 10 votes
The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis ~tech social media security Article 2272 words 20 votes
Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack ~tech security social media apple Article 373 words 49 votes
Twitter is removing images of an internal tool sources say enables account takeover ~tech social media security Article published Jul 9 2020 11 votes
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern ~tech social media security facebook Article 3976 words 8 votes
Friction, snake oil, and weird countries: Cybersecurity systems could deepen global inequality through regional blocking ~tech internet security.cyber Article 8027 words 5 votes
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco? ~tech security Article 2853 words 10 votes
Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones, then backtracks ~tech amazon security Article 253 words 10 votes
Climate change has likely already affected global food production ~enviro climate change Article 7095 words 5 votes
Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law ~tech google facebook security.national Article 606 words 10 votes