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January 15, 2021 / Last updated : January 15, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Sky News: Home secretary told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 police records wiped

Sky News: Home secretary told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 police records wiped . “Home Secretary Priti Patel has been told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were accidentally wiped from police databases. Critics have seized on the mass information loss, warning it would not make the streets […]

January 15, 2021 / Last updated : January 15, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

TechCrunch: A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers

TechCrunch: A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers . “The domain — scpt-network.com — was one of two nameservers for the .cd country code top-level domain, assigned to the Democratic Republic of Congo. If it fell into the wrong hands, an attacker could redirect millions of unknowing internet […]

January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data

ZDNet: Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data. “The developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company shared the health information of users with outside data analytics […]

January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: Google reveals sophisticated Windows and Android hacking operation

ZDNet: Google reveals sophisticated Windows and Android hacking operation. “The exploit chains included a combination of both zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities, where zero-day refers to bugs unknown to the software makers, and n-day refers to bugs that have been patched but are still being exploited in the wild.”

January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Ars Technica: Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters

Ars Technica: Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters. “A key reason for her success: Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post […]

January 12, 2021 / Last updated : January 12, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Threatpost: Researcher Builds Parler Archive Amid Amazon Suspension

Threatpost: Researcher Builds Parler Archive Amid Amazon Suspension. “A security researcher said she has scraped and is archiving 99 percent of Parler’s public posts, as the social-media network goes offline following suspensions from Amazon, Apple and Google. Archived content includes public posts from the social-media site. These posts reportedly included Parler video URLs made up […]

January 9, 2021 / Last updated : January 9, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Wired: Open-source sleuths are already unmasking the Capitol Hill mob

Wired: Open-source sleuths are already unmasking the Capitol Hill mob. “While the mob was still in the Capitol building multiple groups, including Bellingcat, started to scrape everything being posted – a vast digital archive of the riots. Reddit users created a 12GB tranche of videos, Bellingcat’s spreadsheet has more than 100 examples of streams or […]

January 7, 2021 / Last updated : January 7, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

New York Times: The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media.

New York Times: The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media.. “Just after 1 p.m., when President Trump ended his speech to protesters in Washington by calling for them to march on Congress, hundreds of echoing calls to storm the building were made by his supporters online. On social media sites used by […]

January 6, 2021 / Last updated : January 6, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

CNET: Russia blamed for SolarWinds hack in joint FBI, NSA and CISA statement

CNET: Russia blamed for SolarWinds hack in joint FBI, NSA and CISA statement. “Key government intelligence agencies said Tuesday that the SolarWinds hack is ‘likely Russian in origin,’ according to a joint statement from the FBI, NSA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It’s the first time the […]

January 6, 2021 / Last updated : January 6, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Reuters: Google to add App Store privacy labels to its iOS apps as soon as this week

Reuters: Google to add App Store privacy labels to its iOS apps as soon as this week. “Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it will add App Store privacy labels to applications using the iOS operating system from Apple Inc as soon as this week or by next week.”

December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Associated Press: Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’

Associated Press: Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’. “Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked. FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S. agencies and was among the victims, has already […]

December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Cyberscoop: Finnish lawmakers’ emails hacked in suspected espionage incident

Cyberscoop: Finnish lawmakers’ emails hacked in suspected espionage incident. “Hackers gained access to the Finnish Parliament’s IT system in recent months in an incident that allowed them to access to some emails belonging to members of Parliament, the Finnish Central Criminal Police announced Monday.”

December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Wired: Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing

Wired: Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree Sleuthing. “It used to be that DNA could solve a case only if it matched the genetic profile of someone in a criminal database or an existing suspect. But the recent rise of genetic genealogy—a technique that makes it possible to identify people through relatives who […]

December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

‘I do not feel safe’: Kansas GOP mayor resigns after threats over backing mask mandate (NBC News)

NBC News: ‘I do not feel safe’: Kansas GOP mayor resigns after threats over backing mask mandate. “A Republican mayor in western Kansas announced in a letter to city officials and on social media Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate. Mayor […]

December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Washington Post: The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it.

Washington Post: The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it.. “When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring, they sat dormant for days, doing nothing but hiding. Then the malicious code sprang into action and began communicating […]

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