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A week in security (January 13 – January 19)

January 20, 2025 0 Comments google ads, imessage, news, plugx, QR code, socgolish

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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

January 16, 2025 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, csis security group, ezdrivema, FBI, ford merrill, IC3, imessage, Latest Warnings, lighthouse, massdot, north texas toll authority, rcs, secalliance, smishing, sms phishing, sunpass, the toll roads, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:18:48 +0000

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states.

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A week in security (March 28 – April 3)

April 4, 2022 0 Comments a little gift for you, A week in security, Apple, chrome 100, chrome zero-day, globant, go elephant, hive ransomware, imessage, Instagram, lapsus, LinkedIn, lock and code, mitre att&ck, pornhub, runa sandvik, russia, signal, tech support fraud, uac-0056, ukraine, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:08:24 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

March 17, 2020 0 Comments age verification, chat apps, child abuse, child abuse imagery, child porn, child safety, children online, Cryptography, encryption, facebook, facetime, iicsa, imessage, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, Messenger, online grooming, online safety, photodna, predators, Privacy, snapchat, whatsapp, yubo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:57:40 +0000

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ELFeXrr3UeQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Data and device security for domestic abuse survivors

August 13, 2019 0 Comments 2fa, Android, App Store, cloud storage, data security, device security, domestic abuse, domestic abuse survivor, domestic violence, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Google Play, Google Play Store, imessage, iOS, national domestic violence hotline, National Network to End Domestic Violence, passcode, Privacy, secure messaging, Security, signal, spyware, Stalkerware, two-factor authentication, whatsapp, wire

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:33:22 +0000

Many domestic abuse survivors need help before stalkerware strikes. Here, we give basic advice on device security and protecting sensitive data.

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Tags: 2fa Android App Store cloud storage data security device security domestic abuse domestic abuse survivor domestic violence encryption end-to-end encryption Google Play Google Play Store iMessage iOS national domestic violence hotline National Network to End Domestic Violence passcode secure messaging security signal spyware stalkerware two-factor authentication whatsapp wire

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Backdoors are a security vulnerability

August 9, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Attorney General, backdoor, Clipper Chip, Department of Justice, encryption, FBI, golden key, Google, imessage, iOS 8, iPhone, lawful intercept, luggage, National Security Agency, NSA, Privacy, signal, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, whatsapp, William Barr

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:10:27 +0000

Upset by their inability to access potentially vital evidence for criminal investigations, the federal government has, for years, pushed to convince tech companies to build backdoors that will, allegedly, only be used by law enforcement agencies. The problem, cybersecurity researchers say, is that those backdoors can easily be exploited by criminals.

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iMessage bug could have allowed attackers to read data from any iPhone

July 31, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Apple patch, Google, imessage, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPods, Mobile, Natalie Silvanovich, Operating Systems, Project Zero

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:44:07 +0000

Google’s Project Zero has unveiled details of a bug in Apple’s iMessage that lets attackers read data from an iPhone without any user interaction.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lRgoEr1lXx4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>