Collaborate Disseminate
FBI and DHS ICE “misusing” drivers’ license photos to catch crims. Privacy advocates are apoplectic.
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FDA says certain insulin pumps made by Medtronic are hackable, and there’s no way to fix them.
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Researchers show how easy it is to spoof an emergency alert to 50,000 phones. Imagine the panic in a packed sports arena.
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At least ten cell providers compromised, losing data for “hundreds of millions” of customers. Researchers who found the hacks call it Soft Cell.
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The U.S. has been hacking Iran. Despite President Trump’s cancellation of a kinetic retaliation, we’re now told of cyber strikes against Persia.
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The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has “given in” to ransomware. And it’s the biggest municipal ransom we’ve seen: ₿65—about $600,000.
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The infosec cold war continues to grumble on under the surface. Sources claim the U.S. has implanted malware deep into Russia’s electricity grid.
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Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained denial-of-service attack. The DDoS was traced to IP addresses in China.
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Customs and Border Protection admits to losing some pictures of people going in and out of the US. Or rather, that its contractor lost them, which amounts to the same thing.
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Next year’s US elections will be no more secure than in 2016. That’s the depressing conclusion from reports out this week.
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