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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Securing edge devices – how to keep the crooks out of your network
The Good Guys from the Cyber Threat Alliance just published a report to help you keep the Bad Guys out of your network
Docker breach of 190,000 users exposes lack of two-factor authentication
The containerisation platform has asked 190k users to change their passwords after hackers gained access to a database of personal data.
Facebook under investigation for harvesting 1.5m users’ contact lists
For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process).
Man posing as Hollywood superstar scams woman out of a ‘fortune’
She must have been star-struck, she said, after the fraudster hid behind the Fast & Furious star’s photo and reached out from a fan page.
NIST tool boosts chances of finding dangerous software flaws
NIST thinks it has reached an important milestone in complex software testing with something called Combinatorial Coverage Measurement (CCM).
Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations
The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.
Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge
It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.
Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware
Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.
NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.