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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bill marczak, citizen lab, cve-2025-43200, emerita melissa hortman, federal bureau of investigation, Google, international computer science institute, john hoffman, kash patel, Latest Warnings, lockdown mode, lorenzo francheschi-bicchierai, nicholas weaver, security tools, sen. ron wyden, susie wiles, The Coming Storm, the wall street journal, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, andy chandler, Apple, csis security group, ford merrill, ghost tap, Google, grant smith, imessage, m3aawg, rcs, resecurity, secalliance, smishing, The Coming Storm, threatfabric, Web Fraud 2.0, znfc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:37:26 +0000

Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2025 Edition

February 28, 2025 0 Comments adam barnett, Adobe, Apple, cve-2024-38193, cve-2025-21377, cve-2025-21391, cve-2025-21418, Google Chrome, microsoft 365 copilot, microsoft patch tuesday february 2025, other, rapid7, sans internet storm center, satnam narang, tenable, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:58:37 +0000

Microsoft today issued security updates to fix at least 56 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including two zero-day flaws that are being actively exploited.

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Experts Flag Security, Privacy Risks in DeepSeek AI App

February 6, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrew hoog, app transport security, Apple, Artificial intelligence, bytedance, china, deepseek, deepseek ai, iOS, Latest Warnings, nowsecure, The Coming Storm, volcengine

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:12:30 +0000

New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies — introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks.

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