Collaborate Disseminate
First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA.
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After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long?
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The House and the Senate have both passed a bipartisan bill to shore up the security of “internet of things” devices.
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Chinese state-backed threat actors APT10 have been hacking Japanese businesses for at least a year.
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Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has been fired by President Trump. His crime? Making a “highly inaccurate” statement about the 2020 presidential election. CISA called the election “the most secure … Continue reading Trump Fires DHS Cybersecurity Agency Over Election Remarks
An insurance software vendor ’fessed up to losing control of a huge cache of personal data. Vertafore lost the details of 27,700,000 Texas drivers.
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Researchers are sounding the alarm about Android TVs from TCL. A pair of bugs make them serious targets for hackers, and the TVs have a Chinese backdoor.
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A prankster registered a British company name containing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Hilarity ensued.
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Windows 7 and XP are obsolete, but that hasn’t stopped almost a quarter of Windows users using them. It’s a security nightmare waiting to happen.
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Google discovered a “threat actor” exploiting a pair of bugs—one in Chrome and one in Windows.
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