Electronic Frontier Foundation Back by popular demand, we’re hosting a third At Home with EFF event tomorrow at 2 pm (PT)! In addition to our EFF all-stars, we’ll be joined by special guests Şerife Wong, …
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Bleeping Computer Microsoft is planning to put a stop to enterprise data theft via email forwarding by disabling Office 365’s email forwarding to external recipients by default. The company also wants to add improved external …
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Bleeping Computer Hackers claim to have gained access to the network of Banco BCR, the state-owned Bank of Costa Rica, and stolen 11 million credit card credentials along with other data. Full article
Electronic Frontier Foundation In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today roundly rejected Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily …
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Cybersecurity Insiders Last week, Apple and Google came forward to offer a Corona Virus tracking app to NHS which will be in lines with India’s Aarogya Setu Mobile app. However, UK’s government-funded healthcare service provider …
NHS rejects Google and Apple Coronavirus tracking app due to data security fears Read More »
Naked Security It’s happened again! A weird combination of Unicode characters that make up a nonsense word can crash your iPhone, apparently by confusing the iOS operating system when it tries to figure out how …
iPhone “word of death” could crash your phone – what you need to know Read More »
The Register In a blunder described as “astonishing and worrying,” Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register …
Cybersecurity Insiders ExecuPharm, a US-based pharmaceutical company is reported to have become a victim of a Ransomware attack on March 13th of 2020. And as per a letter sent by the company to the Attorney …
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The Register The design of Australia’s COVIDSafe contact-tracing app creates some unintended surveillance opportunities, according to a group of four security pros who unpacked its .APK file. Penned by independent security researcher Chris Culnane, University …
Bleeping Computer witter announced today that it has turned off the Twitter via SMS service because of security concerns, a service which allowed the social network’s users to tweet using text messages since its early beginnings. …
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Bleeping Computer Microsoft is investigating Bluetooth issues, failures to install, and blue screen reports received from users who have installed or attempted to install the KB4549951 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. KB4549951 …
Microsoft investigating Windows 10 KB4549951 BSOD reports Read More »
Bleeping Computer There was not a lot of new variants released this week, but we did have some attacks on high profile victims. This past weekend it came to light that IT service giant Cognizant …
The Week in Ransomware – April 24th 2020 – High Profile Attacks Read More »