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Is Google’s Android app unbundling good for security?

donderdag 18 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If you live in the EU, turning on a new Android device after 29 October 2018 could look quite different...

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You don’t have to sequence your DNA to be identifiable by your DNA

donderdag 18 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If you have European ancestry, there's a 60% chance that somebody vaguely related to you can be used to find out who you are.

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Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms

donderdag 18 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Over 1m tweets show that we're suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.

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Weirdo Twitter messages were a glitch, not a hack

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Were you one of the dozens of people who got a bizarre Twitter message yesterday? It's OK. It wasn't a disturbance in the Matrix.

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Serious SSH bug lets crooks log in just by asking nicely…

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A serious bug in libssh could allow crooks to connect to your server - with no password requested or required. Here's what you need to know.

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New iPhone lock screen bypass exposes your photos

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

José Rodríguez has demonstrated how an attacker with physical access to a device running iOS 12.0.1 can gain access to photos stored on it.

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Is this the simple solution to password re-use?

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Researchers concluded that passphrase requirements such as a 15-character minimum length deter the majority users from reusing them on other sites.

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35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas's voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.

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Donald Daters app for pro-Trump singles exposes users’ data at launch

woensdag 17 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A security researcher found a publicly exposed Firebase data repository that was hardcoded in the dating app.

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US embassy accidentally emails invitation to ‘cat pyjama-jam’ meeting

dinsdag 16 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Canberra’s US embassy accidentally exposed details of one of its more enticing get-togethers last week, featuring a cat in a Cookie Monster outfit.

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How Chrome and Firefox could ruin your online business this month

dinsdag 16 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Last year, Symantec sold off its web certificate business. The new owners are reissuing certs for free - but there's a deadline looming!

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Google using lock screen passwords to encrypt Android Cloud backups

dinsdag 16 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If, that is, your phone has updated to the Android 9 operating system, otherwise known as Pie. If so, say hi to the Titan chip!

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How to buy (and set up) a safe and secure baby monitor

dinsdag 16 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Wi-Fi enabled or not? Digital or analog? Here are the features to look for, and how to secure your baby monitor out of the box.

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Facebook opens up about data breach details

maandag 15 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Two weeks after Facebook's first serious data breach, and the social network has shared what it has figured out so far.

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Beware sextortionists spoofing your own email address

maandag 15 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

In the past, they've pretended to have your passwords - now they're pretending to send email from your "hacked" account, too.

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Literary-minded phishers are trying to pilfer publishers’ manuscripts

maandag 15 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

In a twist on Business Email Compromise, they're spoofing literary agents and going after manuscripts at Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan.

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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

maandag 15 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From the WhatsApp hack to the world's most expensive USB stick, and everything in between. Catch up with everything we've written in the last 7 days - it's weekly roundup time.

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What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes

vrijdag 12 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.

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35 state attorney generals tell FCC to pull the plug on robocalls

vrijdag 12 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The AGs want the FCC to adopt SHAKEN and STIR.

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Experian credit-freeze PINs could be revealed by a simple trick

vrijdag 12 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The credit bureaus' struggles with PINs continue...

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Payment skimmers sneaking on to websites via third party code

vrijdag 12 oktober 2018 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Whatever Magecart is, it’s been blamed for several high-profile payment card breaches this summer.

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