IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers
Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.
Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab
Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee’s car.
“Dig up his body,” say creditors of deceased cryptocurrency player
Apparently, dead men *can* tell tales… especially when millions and millions of cryptocoins are missing.
Plundervolt – stealing secrets by starving your computer of voltage
Turns out that if you drop your CPU voltage just enough, it makes mistakes that could let you sneak in where you shouldn’t.
Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.
Npm patches two serious bugs
JavaScript package users have been warned to update due to a bug that could enable an attacker to infect them with malicious applications.
Google adds Verified SMS and anti-spam feature to Messages app
If webmail, WhatsApp and IM are killing SMS, someone might want to tell Google – as it continues to add new features to its Messages app.
Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says
It’s built on junk science, yet it’s being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says.
Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data
If you’re logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide “relevant content, including ads.”