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Get in line! 38,000 students and staff forced to queue for new passwords

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

It's not a bread line, and it's not a line to see Santa - it's an analog response to a nasty cyber attack.

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Proposed standard would make warrant canaries machine-readable

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

For years, organisations have been using a common tactic called the warrant canary to warn people that the government has secretly demanded access to their private information. Now, a proposed standard could make this tool easier to use.

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Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician

donderdag 19 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Instagram's expanding its fact-checking program but, like Facebook, says it won't keep political speech away from "public debate and scrutiny."

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Doxed credit card data has two hours max before it’s nabbed

woensdag 18 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

That's pretty slow for thieves' bots & scripts to grab it and test it, said a researcher who posted his card online.

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Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers

woensdag 18 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.

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Alleged bank vault robber posed with cash on Instagram, Facebook

woensdag 18 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

He allegedly stole over $88,000 from Wells Fargo's vault, then posed with cash and "his" Mercedes-Benz in posts and an Instagram rap.

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Google to choke off ‘less secure applications’

woensdag 18 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If you're entering a username and password to give an app access to a G Suite account, beware: you won't be able to do it for much longer.

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Don’t fall for this porn scam – even if your password’s in the subject!

dinsdag 17 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

This "I am well aware" email is just another sextortion scam where crooks try to blackmail you with a video they don't actually have.

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Ransomware-seized New Orleans declares state of emergency

dinsdag 17 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

There are signs that the attackers used the particularly pernicious Ryuk strain of ransomware.

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Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates

dinsdag 17 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.

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Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers

dinsdag 17 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.

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Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab

dinsdag 17 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee's car.

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“Dig up his body,” say creditors of deceased cryptocurrency player

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Apparently, dead men *can* tell tales... especially when millions and millions of cryptocoins are missing.

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Plundervolt – stealing secrets by starving your computer of voltage

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Turns out that if you drop your CPU voltage just enough, it makes mistakes that could let you sneak in where you shouldn't.

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Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who's near a crime at a given time.

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Npm patches two serious bugs

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

JavaScript package users have been warned to update due to a bug that could enable an attacker to infect them with malicious applications.

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Google adds Verified SMS and anti-spam feature to Messages app

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If webmail, WhatsApp and IM are killing SMS, someone might want to tell Google - as it continues to add new features to its Messages app.

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Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

It's built on junk science, yet it's being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says.

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Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week

maandag 16 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

From Snatch ransomware's safe-mode reboot to Facebook's view on end-to-end encryption - and everything in between. It's roundup time.

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Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data

vrijdag 13 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

If you're logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide "relevant content, including ads.”

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YouTube bans malicious insults, veiled threats, harassment

vrijdag 13 december 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The new policy addresses how coordinated online abuse often happens in real life: poisonous drips spanning multiple videos/comments.

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