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Kinda sorta weakened version of EARN IT Act creeps closer

Critics say the amended bill that's headed for a full Senate hearing still threatens encryption, albeit less blatantly.

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Company web names hijacked via outdated cloud DNS records

Why hack into a server when you can just send vistors to a fake alternative instead?

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Flashy Nigerian Instagram star extradited to US to face BEC charges

It's a short jump from a Rolls Royce ride to extradition from the UAE. Goodbye, Dubai, goodbye, Palazzo Versace, hello, Chicago jail cell.

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Boston bans government use of facial recognition

To help end systemic racism, we'll stay away from an error-prone technology that's been shown to have racial bias, the city council said.

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Monday review – the hot 11 stories of the week

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Facebook hoaxes back in the spotlight – what to tell your friends

At the risk of giving you a feeling of déjà vu all over again, it's time to talk about Facebook hoaxes once more.

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Google buys AR smart-glasses company North

They're not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of "ambient computing", where helpfulness is all around you.

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The Checklist Summer Security Special 2020

In the movies, bad guys are often taken down by a tech vulnerability. This week, we revisit our look at how best practices could make bad guys better at being bad.  Where Khan went wrong Some of the Empire’s greatest mistakes And who are these alie…

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MongoDB ransom threats step up from blackmail to full-on wiping

Still thinking "the crooks probably won't find me if I make a security blunder"?

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133m records for sale as fruits of data breach spree keep raining down

Databases can be had for as little as $100, on up to $1,100. Most, if not all, are being sold by the hacking group Shiny Hunters.

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Microsoft issues critical fixes for booby-trapped images – update now!

Booby-trapped images could be used to attack Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 - update now!

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Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote

No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process.

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Firefox 78 is out – with a mysteriously empty list of security fixes

TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are now considered security risks and blocked by default.

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Is TikTok reading your clipboard?

TikTok has been caught snooping on iOS users’ clipboard data. The video-sharing app’s troubling behavior was discovered thanks to a new privacy feature in iOS 14 The post Is TikTok reading your clipboard? appeared first on SecureMac.

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Google joins Apple in limiting web certificates to one year

Is it fair to expect everyone to renew all their web certificates every year? Apple says yes, and now Google does too.

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iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards

TikTok, for one, promised to knock this off months ago but was caught red-handed, still at it, by the new clipboard notification in iOS 14.

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Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers

If you run a website or a blog, watch out for emails promising "DNSSEC upgrades" - these scammers are after your whole site.

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Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

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Monday review – the hot 10 stories of the week

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Fancy hacking a PlayStation? Sony announces its bug bounty program

Got a PS4? Like to hack?

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REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more

The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities' legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.

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