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Ransomware with a difference as hackers threaten to release city data

October 28, 2019 0 Comments data loss, Government security, hack, Hackers, johannesburg, malware, Ransomware, security threats, shadow hill hackers, south africa

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:34:08 +0000

Johannesburg spent the weekend struggling to recover from its second malware attack this year as it took key services systems offline.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3n2p-QydisI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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TikTok says no, senators, we’re not under China’s thumb

October 28, 2019 0 Comments china, Chuck Schumer, cyber espionage, fake news, Government security, letter, Mobile, national security, senators, Social networks, TikTok, tom cotton

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:20:57 +0000

US lawmakers asked intelligence to look into whether the app and others like it could pose a security threat or be used to influence opinion.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GlESIs9AFxA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies

October 22, 2019 0 Comments floppy disk, Government security, IBM, icbm, nuclear missile, saccs, strategic automated command and control system, us military

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:24:52 +0000

The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v_9AgmOao9c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Vatican launches smart rosary – complete with brute-force flaw

October 22, 2019 0 Comments brute force, click to pray, erosary, fidus information security, Government security, security threats, vatican, vulnerability, wearables, worldwide prayer network

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:40:16 +0000

Now fixed, the Vatican’s new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/U2BKBl-hm44″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Much-attacked Baltimore uses ‘mind-bogglingly’ bad data storage

October 18, 2019 0 Comments backups, baltimore, data loss, data storage, Government security, Ransomware, robbinhood, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:44:01 +0000

IT workers have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives. One councilman’s alleged response: “That can’t be right? That’s real?”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/idJHYqiJ_xU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple removes app that tracks Hong Kong police and protestors

October 11, 2019 0 Comments App Store, Apple, china, Government security, hkmap.live, hong kong, hong kong cybersecurity and technology crime bureau, hong kong protests, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:54:03 +0000

Apple was under fire this week after banning an app that tracked the location of both police and protesters in Hong Kong on a live map.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NGy6SSRh_9k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France

October 8, 2019 0 Comments alicem, biometrics, cnil, digital identities, digital identity, facial recognition, france, GDPR, Government security, identity theft, la quadrature du net, Law & order, lqdn, national id card, passports, Privacy, tchap

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:36:10 +0000

It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dDDYjz1VwrY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans

October 7, 2019 0 Comments #nobackdoors, australia, back doors, Cryptography, cypherpunk, encryption, end-to-end encryption, facebook, Government security, Mark Zuckerberg, Privacy, Social networks, telegram, uk, usa, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:31:35 +0000

The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/K9Rl32jdNKE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 2020 election, default passwords, Defcon, election systems, election tampering, elections, Government security, matt blaze, poor encryption, security threats, voting machines, voting village, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:31:59 +0000

That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/buAZK9dzyQA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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China’s 500 megapixel camera is capable of mega-facial-recognition

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 500mp, china, china social score, facial recognition, Government security, intelligence advanced research projects activity, Privacy, social credit score, social credit system, surveillance

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:31:34 +0000

The ‘super camera’ can identifying people dozens of meters away using facial recognition.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GeYEe_eqh_k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>