Collaborate Disseminate
Police in France have arrested and charged a 22-year-old man with hacking into a “secure” file-sharing systems used by a Parisian hospital trust, and stealing the COVID-19 test details for 1.4 million people. Continue reading Man charged with hack which shared COVID-19 test details in protest against vaccine pass
Security Professionals have a reputation for being paranoid and pointing out security or privacy flaws in just about everything. When the Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Project was first launched, many a security pro said, with great skepticism, “y… Continue reading API Security Done Right: COVID-19 Exposure Notification System Minimizes Data Exposure
Bug hunters at GitHub Security Labs help shore up German contact tracing app security, crediting open source collaboration. Continue reading German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE
An internet-connected adult toy could leave its users encaged, the official NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app alarms users, and would you be happy if a robot interviewed you for a job?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #199: A few tech cock-ups, and one cock lock-up
New opt-in COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Express systems baked into Apple’s iOS and available on Android need privacy guardrails, say privacy advocates. Continue reading Govt.-Backed Contact-Tracing Apps Raise Privacy Hackles
That was a close shave! On Tuesday, asteroid 2011 ES4 passed really close to the earth. JPL’s close approach data pegs its nominal distance from earth at about 0.00081083276352288 au! Yeah, we had to look it up too: that’s around 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers), just ten times the diameter of …read more
Sure, we may have a lower investment in the collective good, but we’ve also been basically conditioned to avoid answering the phone at any and all costs. Continue reading The Real Reason Contact Tracing Is Doomed in the US: Spam Calls
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams gaze upon the most eye-popping projects from the past week. Who would have known that springy doorstops could be so artistic? Speaking of art, what happens if you give everyone on the network the chance to collectively paint using pixels? There as better …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 079: Wobble Sphere, Pixelflut, Skeeter Traps, and Tracing Apps
Europe has been in COVID-containment mode for the last month, in contrast to the prior three months of serious lockdown. Kids went back to school, in shifts, and people went on vacation to countries with similarly low infection rates. Legoland and the zoo opened back up, capped at 1/3 capacity. …read more
Continue reading COVID Tracing Apps: What Europe Has Done Right, and Wrong
Over the past few months we’ve heard a lot about contact tracers which are designed to inform users if they’ve potentially come into close proximity with someone who has the virus. Generally these systems have been based on smartphone applications, but there are also hardware solutions that can operate independently …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Turned Open Source COVID-19 Contact Tracer