In a week the revelation that Facebook leaked data to 500 million users – including phone numbers and other potentially sensitive information – and the company has not yet given a full report on what happened. But we managed to realize both that the root of the problem was the “contact import” feature of Facebook, and that Facebook had a lot of opportunities to solve this problem before it led to the attackers stealing half the data. billion people.
On Thursday, federal agents arrested a 28-year-old man from Texas for allegedly plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. According to court documents, he had made alarming posts on the forums on MyMilitia.com, which someone later reported to the FBI. Although it is a worrying incident, domestic terrorism experts say there are no signs that Big Tech is a more pronounced target than in previous years, despite increased far-right rhetoric around alleged censorship.
Signal encrypted messaging announced this week that it will begin integrating the relatively new MobileCoin cryptocurrency. While a payment function helps Signal keep up with its multi-function competitors, the move has raised questions about whether Signal invites the interest of regulators and overly complicates a product that is appreciated for its simplicity and ease of use.
As Slack and Discord gained popularity during the pandemic, they also became more popular among hackers as a way to distribute malware. And as Twitch’s home-grown micro-celebrities become more visible, the service has put in place a formal policy to impose serious misconduct that happens off-platform.
The UK is looking to stop Facebook’s attempts to expand its end-to-end encryption. Russia may have found a new way to censor the Internet, and Twitter is suffering. And Call of Duty The tricks are increasingly full of malware on board.
Finally, it is rare to take a look inside the National Security Agency, but three women involved in cyber security in the intelligence community gave WIRED an inside look at the opportunities and obstacles that defined their careers.
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Remember the Facebook leak? Of course! I just spent a lot of time on it. Not to be outdone, LinkedIn confirmed this week that a sale offer on hacker forums includes “publicly visible profile data of members that appear to have been extracted from LinkedIn,” among other sources on the web. LinkedIn was not hacked (this time!), But was victimized by attackers who learned how to collect publicly available user information on a large scale. Even though I thought it was already online, personal data being aggregated in this way still benefits hackers and phishers in particular, who can use it to create your profiles for better targeting.
More than 27 tons of cocaine have been confiscated in Antwerp in the last two months, Belgian police say. More fascinatingly, authorities say they were originally sent for deliveries after decrypting hundreds of millions of messages sent to the encrypted telephone company and the Sky ECC network. Dutch and Belgian authorities have previously caught dozens of people linked to drug trafficking following the Sky crackdown.
This week, two Dutch researchers demonstrated that they can gain remote control of a computer running Zoom without user interaction. Specific details were not disclosed, as Zoom has not yet fixed the underlying errors. The team’s discovery earned them $ 200,000 at Pwn2Own, a twice-a-year competition for white-hat hackers. “We are working to alleviate this issue with Zoom Chat, our group messaging product,” Zoom said in a statement. “Session chat during Zoom meetings and Zoom video webinars are not affected by this issue. The attack must also come from an accepted external contact or be part of the same organizational account of the target.”
In these quarantine periods it is natural to experience an increase in personal wine consumption. This has not gone unnoticed by scammers, who, according to new research from Recorded Future and Area 1 Security, have registered more and more malicious areas targeting wine lovers. At its peak in June, malicious domains accounted for 7 percent of all registered wine-themed domains. Talk about … sour grapes …
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