WhatsApp/Facebook Data Sharing: Pants On Fire?

WhatsApp is forcing users to agree to a new pile of data-sharing legalese. But that’s exactly what it promised not to do.
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Zyxel’s Ridiculous Backdoor: Happy New Year, Now Patch Your Gear

Zyxel, maker of networking gear, “accidentally” introduced a backdoor into its latest firmware, giving hackers access to the networks of businesses and government agencies.
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NSO ‘Pegasus’ Hacking Tool Targets Journalists Again

The NSO Group sells hacking paraphernalia to oppressive regimes. Its Pegasus tool set has been caught hacking journalists.
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Zoom Exec Charged With Tiananmen Square Massacre Censorship

The Justice Department accuses a Zoom executive in China of conspiring to harass Americans and to leak their PII.
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3 Million Chrome Users Infected via Extensions—Here We Go Again

28 browser extensions for Chrome and Edge were laced with malware, says an anti-virus vendor.
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Best of 2020: Signal App Crypto Cracked, Claims Cellebrite

The Signal app has been cracked—its encryption is broken. That’s the preposterous claim made by Cellebrite.
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SUNBURST: Russia Fingered in ‘Perfect 10’ Supply Chain Attack

Russian spies have been operating inside countless enterprises and government agencies, thanks to a hack of SolarWinds.
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EU Vaccine Regulator Hacked for Pfizer/BioNTech Info

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it was hacked by persons unknown.
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Kazakhstan Spies on its People via Man-in-the-Middle Attack, Again

The Kazakh government is forcing its citizens to install a spyware root certificate, allowing authorities to crack open TLS traffic, such as HTTPS.
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Brazil Govt’s Huge Leak: Health Data of 243M

Brazil’s Ministry of Health is under fire again for another massive leak of personal information.
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