Collaborate Disseminate
It seems like every nation is dealing with the plague a little differently. In June, the EU instated a COVID Green Pass which comes in the form of a paper …read more Continue reading COVID Green Pass Validator with Raspberry Pi
Hackers are targeting American and Canadian victims with a malware strain that used coronavirus-themed messages to dupe users into downloading software that collects their personal information, according to findings published Thursday. The scammers, whose identities are unknown, rely on SMS text messages focused on fictional COVID-19 regulations and vaccine information to trick recipients into clicking a link. That link triggers a malicious software — dubbed TangleBot — that infects a user device to collect call data, microphone and camera access and can be combined with other hacking tools to gather financial data. The latest research from Cloudmark, a subsidiary of the email security firm Proofpoint, comes amid ongoing revelations about the ways that attackers have weaponized mobile technology to gather information about unwitting users. Some 85% of Americans now own smartphones, up from 35% in 2011, and increasingly trust the devices to communicate and browse the internet in a way […]
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By Waqas
Cyberattacks have spiked lately due to a lack of cybersecurity awareness and usage of advanced cyber threat risk management tools.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cybersecurity Risk Management During the Covid-19 Time
Continue reading Cybersecurity Risk Management During the Covid-19 Time
Whenever anyone mentions the word “antibodies” these days, it’s sure to grab your attention. Thoughts generally flow to the human immune system and the role it plays in the ongoing …read more Continue reading Monoclonal Antibodies: The Guided Missiles of Medicine
Some Beanie Babies are seemingly selling for thousands of dollars on eBay, others are selling for pennies. What gives? Continue reading Investigating the Fake eBay Market for $25,000 Beanie Babies
Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps.
Also see her excellent book on the topic.
Continue reading Designing Contact-Tracing Apps
A federal judge sentenced two men to prison for a coordinated scheme to hack into tax preparation firms, steal personal information, file fraudulent unemployment claims and income tax returns and then launder the money. The fraudulent unemployment claims aimed to exploit a COVID-19 relief program that netted $280,000 in improper benefits from the state of Washington, the Justice Department announced Thursday. They also included attempts to seek $2.6 million in tax refunds. Bamidele Muraina, a Nigerian national whom DOJ said led the effort to steal identities, received five years and 10 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release and an order to pay more than $500,000 in restitution. For leading the money laundering leg of the operation, Gabriel Kalembo received four years and two months in prison, along with two years of supervised release and an order to pay nearly $300,000. Starting at least in January […]
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A federal judge sentenced two men to prison for a coordinated scheme to hack into tax preparation firms, steal personal information, file fraudulent unemployment claims and income tax returns and then launder the money. The fraudulent unemployment claims aimed to exploit a COVID-19 relief program that netted $280,000 in improper benefits from the state of Washington, the Justice Department announced Thursday. They also included attempts to seek $2.6 million in tax refunds. Bamidele Muraina, a Nigerian national whom DOJ said led the effort to steal identities, received five years and 10 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release and an order to pay more than $500,000 in restitution. For leading the money laundering leg of the operation, Gabriel Kalembo received four years and two months in prison, along with two years of supervised release and an order to pay nearly $300,000. Starting at least in January […]
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Reddit banned r/NoNewNormal and quarantined an additional 54 groups it said were responsible for COVID-19 misinformation. Continue reading Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation
By Deeba Ahmed
The data leak took place after the Elasticsearch server used by eHAC developers exposed the data due to misconfiguration.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indonesian Govt’s COVID-19 test, trace app leak impa… Continue reading Indonesian Govt’s COVID-19 test, trace app leak impacting 1.3m users