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Fortnite World Cup champion and family swatted while live streaming

woensdag 14 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

"They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy sh*t."

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Coinbase explains background to June zero-day Firefox attack

woensdag 14 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A recent, highly targeted attack on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase offers a glimpse into how sophisticated phishing attacks can be.

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Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice

dinsdag 13 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do.

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Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons

dinsdag 13 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren't protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.

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Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers

dinsdag 13 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it.

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Android users menaced by pre-installed malware

dinsdag 13 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices - malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.

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Hacking 4G hotspots – when did you last update?

maandag 12 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Your 4G hotspot might seem very basic and low risk compared to your phone, but you need to keep it patched just as carefully!

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Apple will hand out unlocked iPhones to vetted researchers

maandag 12 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

It formalizes the reality: "pre-jailbroken" iPhones were already on the black market.

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Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court’s go ahead

maandag 12 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given its “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled” biometrics collection.

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GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests

maandag 12 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - right of access requests.

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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week

maandag 12 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

This week: hijacked home routers, SMS spam and time to update your iPhone. Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

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Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand

vrijdag 9 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Here's a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.

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Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

vrijdag 9 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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Parents, it’s time to delete Pet Chat from your child’s LeapPad

vrijdag 9 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all that's left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.

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Your Skype Translator calls may be heard by humans

vrijdag 9 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

A Skype Translator insider claims it's good because humans are listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.

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Update your iPhone – remote control holes revealed by researchers

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

You might not think your phone is as exposed as an internet server - but it's handling plenty of untrusted data from unknown sources!

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Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

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Cisco 220 Series Smart Switch owners told to apply urgent patch

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Businesses running any of Cisco’s 220 Series Smart Switches have some urgent patching work on their hands.

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More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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S2 Ep3: Ransomware, surveillance and data theft – Naked Security Podcast

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Episode 3 of the podcast is now live. This week, host Anna Brading is joined by Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Ben Jones.

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Microsoft puts another nail in VBScript coffin

donderdag 8 augustus 2019 inSophos (Backup & Security)

Listen up, VBScript fans: your favourite scripting language's days are numbered.

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