Collaborate Disseminate
via Chris Morris’ well-crafted reportage at Fortune, comes the story of illegal data sharing engaged in by Motel 6, and the $12,000,000 price tag the company coughed up in settlement fines to the State of Washington. I guess they might not be ‘leaving… Continue reading No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment
For Whome The Bells Toll? It Tolls For The 540 Million Facebook Users Whose Data Is Now Public
Is this the final outrage, or are there more to come? h/t
The post The Deathknell of Facebook? Nope, Nothing to See Here Except Another 540 Million Users E… Continue reading The Deathknell of Facebook? Nope, Nothing to See Here Except Another 540 Million Users Exposed
Why of Why Did I Take The Blue Pill… via BleepingComputer writer Sergiu Gatlan comes research output by SafeBreach security research Dor Azouri, that the tests are focused on the ARM based release, and not the x86-64 product. More information is ava… Continue reading Windows 10, IoT Core Test Subsystem Permits Device Control Seizure
Which Mark Zuckerberg are you listening to today?
via Timothy B. Lee, writing at Ars Technica, comes this outstanding, on-target examination of the apparent delusional world Mark Zuckerberg works and lives in… Key Point: The conflation of Facebook (… Continue reading The Many Splendored Delusions of Mark Zuckerberg
No, Binky, it’s just a cute bug!
Information theft now prevalent, according to the 2019 State of Malware Report, created annually by Malwarebytes’. Enjoy!
“While cryptomining died down by the second quarter, a new set of threats were eager to t… Continue reading Malwarebytes Releases State of Malware Report:
In preparation for the country’s 2020 Olympics (and – ostensibly – in order to avoid catastophic numbers of IoT vectored attacks during the Olympic events)… Probably about 5 years too late, though, as the enormity of fixing the problems may be insu… Continue reading Japan Government Set To Hack Citizen Owned IoT Devices
via the highly respected Dan Goodin – Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes the story of a fundamental design weakness at GoDaddy, Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), whcih permitted thousands of domains registered at GoDaddy, Inc. to be hijacked, leading to bomb-thr… Continue reading Weak-Kneed GoDaddy Security Implementation Permits Large-Scale Email Bomb Threat Transmissions
A cybersecurity reporter says his own Google-provided email app flagged an email about a Google party because it included content “typically used to steal personal information.” Continue reading Google’s Own Email Filters Flag Google’s Party Invite as Malicious
“If there’s a massive citizens’ protest, they can’t have their officers show up to every small claims court in the country.” Continue reading A Legal Startup Will Pay For You to Sue Equifax
Numbers from breach notification site Vigilante.pw indicates that data breaches really are becoming more frequent. Continue reading Are Data Breaches Becoming More Common?