Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:14:29 +0000
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days – it's weekly roundup time.
Monday 29 July 2019
- NAS targeted by brute force ransomware attacks
- Three quarters of gamers suffer hate and harassment online
- Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election, Senate report says
Tuesday 30 July 2019
- Capital One breach – 100 million users’ data stolen
- Hackers target Telegram accounts through voicemail backdoor
- Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records
- US chases fraudulent bitcoin exchange BTC-e for $100m
- Post-Equifax settlement, NY updates data breach notification laws
Wednesday 31 July 2019
- ‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators
- iMessage bug could have allowed attackers to read data from any iPhone
- Georgia hit with malware yet again
- Cyberattacks on connected cars could gridlock entire cities
Thursday 1 August 2019
- Researchers hack camera in fake video attack
- North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083
- Five Eyes nations demand access to encrypted messaging
Friday 2 August 2019
- S2 Ep2: EvilGnome, leaky browser add-ons and BlueKeep – Naked Security Podcast
- Space agency uses Raspberry Pi to solve satellite encryption puzzle
- 4 million Club Penguin Rewritten accounts exposed in breach
- Anime filter glitches, exposing face of one extremely smart vlogger
- Facebook is working on mind-reading
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This week’s podcast
In series 2, episode 2, host Anna Brading talks to Matt Boddy, Paul Ducklin and Mark Stockley about EvilGnome Linux malware [5’07”], the latest developments in the BlueKeep saga [15’53”] and whether your browser extensions are spying on you [28’08”].
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