Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing 2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librería Porrúa.
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Google and Apple suspend contractor access to voice recordings
This week, Apple and Google announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors. Let’s start with Apple. Apple’s privacy hump began a week ago when The Guardian ran a story revealing that contractors “regularly hear” all sorts of things Apple customers […]
Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers
Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called ‘j3ws3r on Twitter’: I’m here to warn the masses about SMS email gateways. Please look up how to disable it […]
FileZilla fixes show how far we’ve come since Heartbleed
What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014’s Heartbleed bug?
S2 Ep2: EvilGnome, leaky browser add-ons and BlueKeep – Naked Security Podcast
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Space agency uses Raspberry Pi to solve satellite encryption puzzle
The European Space Agency thinks it’s found a cheaper way to control a small module – and it’s built around a tiny Raspberry Pi Zero.
Club Penguin Rewritten breach caused by rogue admin backdoor
The hugely popular gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten suffered a data breach that exposed 4m user accounts.
Anime filter glitches, exposing face of one extremely smart vlogger
Pretending to be a hot young thing brought in beaucoup bucks. Last laugh department: “world’s best granny” now has more followers than ever.
Facebook is working on mind-reading
The completely non-evil-genius goal: a wearable, noninvasive device that could translate thoughts into text, for the speech impaired or VR.
Researchers hack camera in fake video attack
Tampering with surveillance cameras is a common activity for Hollywood heroes and criminals alike. Now, researchers have shown how they can do it in real life.