February 2020 – Page 26 – PossibleThreat Articles

HorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Antivirus, certificate, critical vulnerability, cve-2020-0601, Cyber safety, encryption, horsedeal, malware, Microsoft Windows, Privacy, Ransomware, rsa, Security, spoofing, ssl certificate, Tips, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000

It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…

Independent Krebs Security

Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

February 4, 2020 0 Comments assistant u.s. attorney adam alexander, david bukoski, DDoS-for-hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, quantum stresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:05:08 +0000

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service.

ComputerWorld Independent

Iowa Caucus chaos likely to set back mobile voting

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Blockchain, Emerging Technology, Government, Government IT, Mobile, Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:51:00 -0800

A coding flaw and lack of sufficient testing of an application to record votes in Monday’s Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus will likely hurt the advancement and uptake of online voting.

While there have been hundreds of tests of mobile and online voting platforms in recent years – mostly in small municipal or corporate shareholder and university student elections – online voting technology has yet to be tested for widespread use by the general public in a national election.

“This is one of the cases where we narrowly dodged a bullet,” said Jeremy Epstein, vice chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC). “The Iowa Democratic Party had planned to allow voters to vote in the caucus using their phones; if this sort of meltdown had happened with actual votes, it would have been an actual disaster. In this case, it’s just delayed results and egg on the face of the people who built and purchased the technology.”

To read this article in full, please click here

ComputerWorld Independent

The problem with mobile and app voting

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Blockchain, Mobile, Security

It's the day after the 2020 Iowa caucuses, and the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to announce the winner. The app that precinct leaders were supposed to use to report final tallies recorded inconsistent results. Party leaders blamed a "coding issue" within the app, not a hack or attack. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian joins Juliet to discuss the problem with mobile voting and how this snafu may affect the reputation of app voting in the future.

MalwareBytes Security

Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors

February 4, 2020 0 Comments 2019 washington privacy act, 2020 washington privacy act, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, consumer reports, data portability, data privacy law, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, facial recognition, future of privacy forum, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Microsoft, personal data, Privacy, right to access, right to correct, right to delete, senator reuven carlyle, sensitive data, washington privacy act, washington privacy act 2019, washington privacy act 2020, wpa

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:35:25 +0000

The Washington Privacy Act would extend new data rights of access, correction, and deletion to Washington residents, with new rules on facial recognition.

Categories:

Privacy

Tags: 2019 Washington Privacy Act 2020 Washington Privacy Act California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA Consumer Reports data portability data privacy law data privacy laws data privacy legislation facial recognition Future of Privacy Forum gdpr General Data Protection Regulation microsoft personal data right to access right to correct right to delete Senator Reuven Carlyle sensitive data Washington Privacy Act Washington Privacy Act 2019 Washington Privacy Act 2020 WPA

Security Wired

This Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Molly Schwartz, Wired UK | Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Your digital self is fragmented and owned by third parties. Kaliya Young has a plan to change that—and make tech fairer for all.

Security Wired

Mysterious New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:56:34 +0000

EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.

Security Wired

An Artist Used 99 Phones to Fake a Google Maps Traffic Jam

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:44:17 +0000

With his “Google Maps Hack,” artist Simon Weckert draws attention to the systems we take for granted—and how we let them shape us.

Fortinet Security

Another Metamorfo Variant Targeting Customers of Financial Institutions in More Countries

February 4, 2020 0 Comments

Read about the malware family of the Metamorfo targeting financial organizations, in this analysis from FortiGuard Labs.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/hWhgw9jbkcs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>