Vulnerability in Stalkerware Apps
March 2 2022TechCrunch is reporting — but not describing in detail — a vulnerability in a series of stalkerware apps that exposes personal information of the victims. The vulnerability isn’t in...
Read moreDecrypting Hive Ransomware Data
March 1 2022Nice piece of research:
Abstract: Among the many types of malicious codes, ransomware poses a major threat. Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in exchange for decryption. As...
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Insurance Coverage for NotPetya Losses
February 28 2022Tarah Wheeler and Josephine Wolff analyze a recent court decision that the NotPetya attacks are not considered an act of war under the wording of Merck’s insurance policy, and...
Read morePrivacy 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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