Everyone sends emails now: political parties, your book club, freelance journalists, the social networks you are subscribed to, your parents, that online store from which you only bought an article a decade …
Read More »John McAfee Accused Of Altcoin Bombs And Dumps And ICO Schemes
At night On December 20, 2017, controversial cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee tweeted that he would be embarking on some kind of educational blitz. “Starting tomorrow, I’ll be talking about a unique altcoin …
Read More »The wave of Chinese piracy reached an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
When the news comes Earlier this week, when Chinese hackers were actively targeting Microsoft Exchange servers, the cybersecurity community warned that the zero-day vulnerabilities they were exploiting could have allowed them to …
Read More »China and Russia’s spy systems will take years to break down
First was SolarWinds, a supposedly Russian hacking campaign that dates back almost a year and has taken down at least nine US government agencies and countless private companies. Now it’s Hafnium, a …
Read More »Thousands of Android and iOS apps leak data from the cloud
For years, simple Configuration errors have been a major source of exposure when companies maintain data in the cloud. Rather than carefully restricting who can access the information stored in their cloud …
Read More »Twitch’s first transparency report is here, and long overdue
Twitch launched today its first transparency report, detailing its efforts to protect the 26 million people who visit its site every day. When it comes to transparency, the decade-old Amazon-owned service had …
Read More »Far-right platform Gab has been hacked, including private data
When Twitter banned Donald Trump and a host of other far-right users in January, many of them became digital refugees, migrating to sites like Parler and Gab to find a home that …
Read More »Sites have a deceptive new way to track you on the web
This week I saw the first known appearance of malware written specifically for Apple’s M1 processors, an inevitable but still somewhat worrisome development, especially given the short time it took for the …
Read More »U.N. report accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of Libya of gun ban violations, diplomat says
DUBAI – A United Nations report accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of aiding in violations of an international arms embargo on Libya, putting the military contractor at risk of UN sanctions, according …
Read More »Apple Offers Its Closest Look at iOS and MacOS Security
Apple is a notoriously closed and insular organization, a trend that has often put it at odds with the security research community. The company is often secretive about the technical details of …
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