Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. The main functionality of the malware is to encrypt data on the computer and make ransom demands.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The “public ledger” role and “smart contract” applications of blockchain already in existence sound suspiciously familiar to our turf, and they’re handled by encryption keys and code, not by people. As expert Vicki Lemieux and her U of BC team simply put it, “Blockchain technology is fundamentally a recordkeeping technology.”

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