Facebook Facebook delivers ‘clear history’ tool that doesn’t ‘clear’ anythingsophos.com - Lisa Vaas Post-Cambridge Analytica/Cubeyou/et al. privacy-stress disorder, privacy advocates, members of Congress and users told Facebook that we wanted more …
Infosec Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outragetheregister.co.uk - Shaun Nichols Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation …
Google Google proposes new privacy standards to protect web browsing dataEngadget - Jon FingasThe 'sandbox' would allow personalized ads without sharing too much info. Google is stepping up its efforts to limit web fingerprinting and otherwise protect your privacy while keeping its ad business
Cyber-attacks The untold stories behind the world’s worst cyberattacksMashable - Cassidy MillerThe misuse of technology has become the darkest danger of the digital age. In the new original video series Kernel Panic, Mashable and PCMag dive deep into the worst cybersecurity breaches of all time.
Tech Industry Digital identity sales on the rise through newly popular dark web sitesiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley A new report from external threat intelligence firm IntSights Inc. has detailed the rise of a dark web forum that specializes in a digital identities …
Play buttonTechnology Researcher discloses second zero-day flaw in Steam Windows clientTNW - Ravie LakshmananUpdate on Aug. 23, 9:15 AM IST: Valve has now officially issued fixes for the privilege escalation vulnerabilities discovered in its Steam client on the beta channel. The company acknowledged that it a
Spyware Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don't forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLCtheregister.co.uk - Shaun Nichols VideoLAN has issued an update to address a baker's dozen of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its widely used VLC player software. The VLC update …
Encryption Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from hackers with quantum computerssciencemag.org - Adrian Cho A full-fledged quantum computer is still years, if not decades, away. But developers have long thought that its killer app will be decoding encrypted …
Mozilla Apple, Google, Mozilla all act to block state surveillance of web users9to5Mac - Ben LovejoyApple, Google, and Mozilla are all taking action to block state surveillance of web users through their respective browsers… The Kazakhstan government last month began intercepting all HTTPS internet inside
China China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health dataWired UK - Matt Burgess In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware spread around the globe. As the worm locked Windows PCs, the UK's National Health Service quickly ground to a …
Technology Artificial Intelligence: A Tool or a Threat to Cybersecurity?ReadWrite - Nabeel AhmadSecurity threats to businesses have always been there -now it only shifted from physical to cyberspace. So, today’s business world revolves around “data,” which adds intrinsic value to both businesses
Security Security concerns blocking UK digital transformationcomputerweekly.com - Warwick Ashford More than two-thirds (67%) of UK firms say cyber security concerns prevent them from adopting new technologies such as cloud computing and the …
Technology Cybersecurity: This trojan malware being offered for free could cause hacking spikeZDNet - Danny Palmer NanoCore RAT can steal passwords, payment details, and secretly record audio and video of Windows users. A new version of a powerful form of trojan …
No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devstheregister.co.uk - Thomas Claburn An old version of a Ruby software package called rest-client that was modified and released about a week ago has been removed from the Ruby Gems …
How-To's How to Make Sure Your Passwords Haven't Been StolenLifehacker - David Murphy One of the best things about having a solid password is that you don’t have to change it. If it’s strong, unique, and hasn’t been compromised by an …
MoviePass MoviePass Data Leak Exposes Thousands of Credit CardsTom's Guide - Paul Wagenseil It probably shouldn't be too surprising that a company that has a questionable business plan might have questionable security. Thousands of …
Technology Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before electionZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu French researcher nets $15,000 prize for finding bugs in Moscow's Ethereum-based voting system. The technology-enabled mechanism of trust could make …
Technology Kink in porn site exposes the personal data of over 1M usersTNW - MixAnother day, another data breach. This time, the victim is adult website Luscious, which lets users upload pornographic images and animations behind anonymous usernames. But as it turns out, the promise
Mobile Technology 10 Linux distros: From different to dangerous | ZDNetZDNet This is North Korea's state-produced Linux environment. Given our recent report about North Korea's apparent theft of $2 billion via cyberattacks, …
iFrame clickjacking countermeasures appear in Chrome source code. And it only took *checks calendar* three yearstheregister.co.uk - Thomas Claburn After inaction, technical changes promise better fraud defenseThree years ago, Google software engineer Ali Juma proposed that Chrome should be …
Encryption Encryption has created an uncrackable puzzle for the real worldZDNet - Steve Ranger Encryption protects us, so maybe it's time for us to protect it. But no answer to the encryption debate is without a downside. With a certain amount …
APIs Authentication and the Have I Been Pwned APItroyhunt.com - Troy Hunt The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. My thinking at the time was that it …
Bluetana App Quickly Detects Hidden Bluetooth Card Skimmers at Gas Pumpsthehackernews.com - Swati Khandelwal In recent years, gas stations have become one of the favorite targets for thieves who are stealing customers' credit and debit card information by …
Safari (Browser) Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issuetheregister.co.uk - Thomas Claburn Apple's WebKit team on Wednesday formalized the company's oft-repeated pro-privacy stance (provided you're not in China) by declaring that …
Google Stop Using Hijacked Passwords That Google Already Told You Were BadGizmodo - Victoria Song In February, Google did us lazy bums a favor by adding a Password Checkup extension for Chrome. The way it works is the extension will send you a …
Bluetooth Bluetooth security flaw has a silly name but serious consequencesslashgear.com - Chris Davies A critical Bluetooth security flaw has left millions of devices potentially at risk of data eavesdropping, forcing companies like Apple and Microsoft …
Technology 8 million Android users tricked into downloading 85 adware apps from Google PlayTechCrunch - Zack WhittakerDozens of Android adware apps disguised as photo-editing apps and games have been caught serving ads that would take over users’ screens as part of a fraudulent money-making scheme. Security firm Trend
Mobile Technology Google study says people are still using old passwords after being compromisedTNW - Ravie LakshmananMore than 300,000 users continue to utilize credentials that have been previously compromised, with people visiting entertainment and porn websites most at fault. That’s according to a new study by Google,
Google Drive Energy Sector Phish Swims Past Microsoft Email Security via Google Drivethreatpost.com - Tara Seals A targeted spearphishing campaign has hit an organization in the energy sector – after using a savvy trick to get around the company’s Microsoft …
