Zeljka Zorz
US Customs wants to know travelers’ social media account names
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget, asking for permission to collect travelers social media account …
NASCAR team falls victim to ransomware, pays ransom
Most US businesses would perhaps not pay in the event of a ransomware attack, but Circle-Sport Leavine Family Racing (CSLFR), a professional NASCAR car racing team, is not one …
FBI doesn’t need a warrant to hack a suspect’s computer, US judge rules
A senior US district judge has decided that the warrant authorizing the search of a suspect’s home computer by the FBI was issued based of probable cause, but even if it …
Exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers by modulating fan speed
For the last few years, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been testing up new ways to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers: via mobile phones, …
Your nearest and dearest are snooping on your phone
If you needed one more reason for protecting your phone with a passcode or fingerprint, here it is: there’s a good chance that one or more of the people close to you …
154 million US voter records exposed following hack
MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered yet another database containing voter profiles of US citizens, accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it or knew …
Severe flaws patched in libarchive, dependent projects urged to follow
Three severe bugs that could be easily exploited to perform arbitrary code execution have been patched with version 3.2.1 of the libarchive open source multi-format archive …
ApocalypseVM ransomware decrypter released
AV company Emsisoft has added yet another ransomware decrypter tool to its stable: a decrypter for ApocalypseVM. The tool works on the latest versions of the ransomware in …
Tech support scammers impersonate victims’ ISP
Tech support scammers have switched from cold calls to pop-ups ambushing users online, seemingly coming from the victims’ ISP. In the US and Canada, Verizon, AT&T …
Google’s new authentication option: a tap on the screen
Google knowns that usability is a pre-requisite for security, so they’ve come up (yet again) with a new option within the 2-step verification feature for Google …
Unsecured security cameras lead to privacy erosion
The results of a recent analysis of some 6,000 open security cameras across the United States has shown that 15 percent of them are located in users’ private homes. Open …
Blackphone users get a virtual privacy assistant
Silent Circle has pushed out a new version of Silent OS, the operating system running on Blackphone 2 devices, and it comes with several privacy and security enhancements, …
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