feedproxy.google.com – Cybersecurity researchers over the weekend disclosed new security risks associated with link previews in popular messaging apps that cause the services to leak IP addresses, expose links sent via end-to-end encrypted chats, and even unnecessarily download gigabytes of data stealthily in the background. “Links shared in chats may [More …]
www.darkreading.com – A botnet focused on cryptomining, spamming, and defacement has infected hundreds of thousands of websites running popular content management systems (CMSes), such as WordPress, Joomla, Magneto, and Drupal, according to online security firm Imperva. The botnet, dubbed KashmirBlack, uses a modular infrastructure that includes features such as load [More …]
www.eff.org – In 2013, Google Glass stirred a backlash, but the promise of augmented reality bringing 3D models and computer interfaces into the physical world (while recording everything in the process) is re-emerging. As is the public outcry over privacy and “always-on” recording. In the last seven years, companies are [More …]
www.eff.org – Black, white, or indigenous; well-resourced or indigent; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that though George Floyd and [More …]
rss.slashdot.org – Google has changed how a core component of the Chrome browser works in order to add additional privacy protections for its users. From a report: Known as the HTTP Cache or the Shared Cache, this Chrome component works by saving copies of resources loaded on a web page, [More …]
rss.slashdot.org – An anonymous reader shares a report: The early days of the internet were full of predictions about access to information unleashing a wave of democratisation. More recently, views on the internet’s impact have soured, as states use it to spy on dissidents and influence foreign elections. Opinions on [More …]
twitter.com – … Subcommittee report on Big Tech. It's not about Big Tech really, it's about Congress needing to reinstitute itself as the writer of the laws in this … More at https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1313886749983031296
www.darkreading.com – The US has seized 92 domain names used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to spread a worldwide disinformation campaign. The United States has seized 92 domain names that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used in a global disinformation campaign, the Department of Justice reported this week. [More …]
www.darkreading.com – Despite fears that the burgeoning population of remote workers would lead to breaches, companies have held their own, a survey of threat analysts finds. Since the onset of the pandemic, more than half of firms say they have detected at least a “moderate increase” in cyberattacks, while one in10 [More …]
feedproxy.google.com – As businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, securing the infrastructure has never been more important. Now according to the latest research, two security flaws in Microsoft’s Azure App Services could have enabled a bad actor to carry out server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks or execute arbitrary code [More …]
www.eff.org – In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many social media platforms shifted their content moderation policies to rely much more heavily on automated tools. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all ramped up their machine learning capabilities to review and identify flagged content in efforts to ensure the wellbeing of [More …]
www.eff.org – As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws in order to punish those who provoke their ire. As we see in Assange’s case and in many others before [More …]
www.darkreading.com – Facebook says SilentFade campaign disabled notifications that could have warned users that their accounts had been compromised. The operators of advertising fraud schemes have added persistence and the targeting of new platforms in their efforts to siphon off as much of the $125 billion online advertising market as [More …]
www.darkreading.com – The destructive worm may have debuted a decade ago, but Stuxnet is still making its presence known. Here are steps you can take to stay safer from similar attacks. Around this time 10 years ago, the Stuxnet worm made its global debut. Unleashed with the intent to destroy [More …]
www.eff.org – The long-awaited report[pdf] by the House Judiciary Committee staff[1] on Big Tech’s monopoly power hits all the right notes—and just a few wrong ones. Following a year of hearings and research, the staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust found that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple all have either significant [More …]
www.darkreading.com – The approach is a long time in coming and will test the premise that users can more easily detect a suspicious domain from the name alone. Google’s Chrome86 browser is about to get tested with a new look and feel to help thwart phishing attacks. The browser will only [More …]
www.eff.org – Cops in Vallejo have put their controversial cell-phone surveillance tool back in the box, after a judge released a tentative ruling (which the judge might or might not later finalize or amend) that they’d acquired it in violation of state law. The case was brought by Oakland Privacy, an [More …]
www.togiblog.com – A day after the Senate Commerce Committee moved forward with plans to subpoena the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google, it looks like some of the most powerful leaders in tech will testify willingly. Twitter announced late Friday that Jack Dorsey would appear virtually before the committee on [More …]
www.darkreading.com – Online security researchers report that thousands of Emotet emails containing a message body were pulled directly from the Democratic National Committee website, spoofing the DNC in a new attack campaign. Emotet is a Trojan that is primarily spread through spam emails (aka, malspam). The infection may arrive either [More …]
www.darkreading.com – At Black Hat Asia, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers use neural networks to attempt to identify authors, but accuracy is still wanting. With disinformation on social media a significant problem, the ability to identify authors of malicious articles and the originators of disinformation campaigns could help reduce the [More …]
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