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Monday review – the hot 11 stories of the week

maandag 6 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Facebook hoaxes back in the spotlight – what to tell your friends

vrijdag 3 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

At the risk of giving you a feeling of déjà vu all over again, it's time to talk about Facebook hoaxes once more.

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Google buys AR smart-glasses company North

vrijdag 3 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

They're not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of "ambient computing", where helpfulness is all around you.

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MongoDB ransom threats step up from blackmail to full-on wiping

donderdag 2 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Still thinking "the crooks probably won't find me if I make a security blunder"?

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133m records for sale as fruits of data breach spree keep raining down

donderdag 2 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Databases can be had for as little as $100, on up to $1,100. Most, if not all, are being sold by the hacking group Shiny Hunters.

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Microsoft issues critical fixes for booby-trapped images – update now!

woensdag 1 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Booby-trapped images could be used to attack Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 - update now!

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Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote

woensdag 1 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process.

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Firefox 78 is out – with a mysteriously empty list of security fixes

woensdag 1 juli 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are now considered security risks and blocked by default.

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Google joins Apple in limiting web certificates to one year

dinsdag 30 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Is it fair to expect everyone to renew all their web certificates every year? Apple says yes, and now Google does too.

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iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards

dinsdag 30 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

TikTok, for one, promised to knock this off months ago but was caught red-handed, still at it, by the new clipboard notification in iOS 14.

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Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers

maandag 29 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If you run a website or a blog, watch out for emails promising "DNSSEC upgrades" - these scammers are after your whole site.

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Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

maandag 29 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

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Monday review – the hot 10 stories of the week

maandag 29 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Fancy hacking a PlayStation? Sony announces its bug bounty program

vrijdag 26 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Got a PS4? Like to hack?

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REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more

vrijdag 26 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities' legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.

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Patch time! NVIDIA fixes kernel driver holes on Windows and Linux

donderdag 25 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Kernel driver bugs often let crooks take over your entire system from even the weediest foothold.

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Twitter apologizes for leaking businesses’ financial data

donderdag 25 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Twitter emailed business clients to tell them that their financial data may have been seen by the uninvited.

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Glupteba – the bot that gets secret messages from the Bitcoin blockchain

woensdag 24 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

And you thought the Bitcoin blockchain was all about cryptocurrency!

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iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, Safari to give us ‘No, thanks!’ option for ad tracking

woensdag 24 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

At WWDC, Apple promised to double down on data protection in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases.

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United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time

dinsdag 23 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Making .GOV domains secure - it'll take "a few years" yet

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‘BlueLeaks’ exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments

dinsdag 23 juni 2020 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The journalist collective DDoSecrets published nearly 270GB of data on Juneteenth: the date commemorating the end of US enslavement.

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