ZDNet The University of Hertfordshire has suffered a devastating cyberattack that knocked out all of its IT systems, including Office 365, Teams and Zoom, local networks, Wi-Fi, email, data storage and VPN. The university reported …
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ZDNet The Internet of Secure Things Alliance, an IoT security certification body (a.k.a. ioXt), has launched a new security certification for mobile apps and VPNs. The new ioXt compliance program includes a ‘mobile application profile’ …
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Mullvad We now offer support for custom DNS server configuration on the desktop and Android versions of the Mullvad VPN app. We haven’t yet evaluated this option for iOS. Full article
Electronic Frontier Foundation Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last …
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WIRED A week into the revelation that Facebook leaked the data of 500 million users—including phone numbers and other potentially sensitive info—and the company still hasn’t given a full account of what happened. But we’ve …
Security News This Week: Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Has a 500M User Data Leak Read More »
Ars Technica Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to …
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities Read More »
Mullvad While you’ve been waiting, we’ve been busy! Read about the latest Mullvad VPN app release for Android, which includes support for custom (local) DNS servers, Burmese translation and more. Full article
Electronic Frontier Foundation Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we …
553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy Read More »
ZDNet Two of the nations held up as exemplars of how to fight COVID were Taiwan and New Zealand, but the approaches were very different: One has locked down parts of its population multiple times, …
Technology could make fighting COVID less restrictive but privacy will take a hit Read More »
The Hacker News A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, …
Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts Read More »
Bleeping Computer Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned can now be used to check if your personal information was exposed in yesterday’s Facebook data leak that contains the phone numbers and information for …
How to check if your info was exposed in the Facebook data leak Read More »
Bleeping Computer Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that North Korean government-sponsored hackers are once again targeting security researchers using fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts. The hackers also created a website for a …
Google: North Korean hackers target security researchers again Read More »