Privacy Violating COVID Tests
February 25 2022A good lesson in reading the fine print: Cignpost Diagnostics, which trades as ExpressTest and offers £35 tests for holidaymakers, said it holds the right to analyse samples from seals...
Read moreAn Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age
February 24 2022The story is an old one, but the tech gives it a bunch of new twists:
Gemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Videos
February 23 2022Here are six beautiful squid videos. I know nothing more about them. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreBypassing Apple’s AirTag Security
February 23 2022A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple’s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.
So now we have several problems...
Read moreA New Cybersecurity “Social Contract”
February 22 2022The US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis wrote an essay outlining a new social contract for the cyber age:
The United States needs a new social contract for the...
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Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes
February 21 2022This is a clever hack against those bike-rental kiosks:
They’re stealing Citi Bikes by switching the QR scan codes on two bicycles near each other at a docking station,...
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There’s a lot of fishing going on: The number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the south Pacific has surged 13-fold from 54 active vessels in 2009 to 707 in 2020, according...
Read morePossible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
February 17 2022A reporter interviews a Uyghur human-rights advocate, and uses the Otter.ai transcription app. The next day, I received an odd note from Otter.ai, the automated transcription app that I had...
Read moreVendors are Fixing Security Flaws Faster
February 16 2022Google’s Project Zero is reporting that software vendors are patching their code faster.
tl;dr
- In 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix security vulnerabilities reported from Project... Read more
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