Clearview AI’s Massive Client List Got Hacked
Credit to Author: WIRED Staff| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000
Clever malware, student surveillance, and more of the week’s top security news.
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The Long Path out of the Vulnerability Disclosure Dark Ages
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:04:52 +0000
Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier since 2003—but not by much.
Read moreDangerzone Lets You Open Email Attachments Safely
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:12:00 +0000
Dangerzone takes potentially malicious files and safely sanitizes them for you.
Read moreFCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:12:10 +0000
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.
Read moreSophos wins big in February
Credit to Author: Matthew Phillion| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:00:56 +0000
Sophos cleaned up on the awards front in February – find out which awards and accolades we took home this month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/C2oRaaDL5vY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreIntroducing Central Firewall Reporting with XG Firewall v18
Credit to Author: scottgrebesophos| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:45:15 +0000
New cloud-based reporting tool provides the flexibility to create custom historical reports on network activity for free.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/eoQXzp5fOFk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreDomen toolkit gets back to work with new malvertising campaign
Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:54:18 +0000
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Read moreThis Week in Security News: Trend Micro Detects a 10 Percent Rise in Ransomware in 2019 and New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over a Billion Devices
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:56:27 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how Trend Micro detected a 10 percent rise in ransomware attacks in 2019. Also, learn about a new Wi-Fi encryption vulnerability affecting over a billion…
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Read moreClearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:08:19 +0000
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UEh1lsdY7KE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreRansomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free
Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:04:27 +0000
Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-YH21vT56Rs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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