And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it’s necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Microsoft drops password expiration from Windows 10 security
Microsoft has recognised that users don’t actually change their passwords when prompted, they just tweak them. And that doesn’t help anyone.
Cops can try suspect’s fingers on locked iPhones found at crime scene
A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect’s fingers.
ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know
A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.
Blochainbandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys
Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.
Atlanta Hawks fall prey to Magecart credit card skimming group
The Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card skimming code on it.
Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores’ facial recognition
He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.
Ex-student records himself using USB Killer to fry college computers
Vishwanath Akuthota faces a potential ten-year stretch after killing at least 66 computers at his former college.
NYPD forgets to redact facial recognition docs, asks for them back
The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them back.
Gunpoint domain hijack turns out to have been a family affair
The owner of State Snaps hired his cousin to break into the home of the owner of DoItForState.com to force him to transfer the domain.