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Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

March 17, 2020 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, europol, Law & order, malware, operation quinientos dusim, operation smart cash, security threats, sim hijackers, SIM hijacking, sim jacking, sim swap, sim swap fraud, SIM swapping, SIM swaps, sim-swapping attacks, two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:51:21 +0000

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can’t log into your bank account because it’s controlled by a hacker who’s draining you dry.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ORrtEW70IY8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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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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Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

March 17, 2020 0 Comments ban, bill, china, government phones, Government security, josh hawley, Law & order, legislation, rick scott, senate, spying, subcommittee, terrorism, TikTok

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:26:55 +0000

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JZyyYvFBZdk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption

March 17, 2020 0 Comments #nobackdoors, backdoor, backdoors, communications decency act, Cryptography, earn it act, earn-it, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Government security, Law & order, no backdoors, section 230

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:12:27 +0000

The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SqOImXCXz8A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

March 3, 2020 0 Comments AI, anthropometry, Artificial intelligence, biometrics, camera-to-subject distance, conference, eilidh noyes, face matching, faceprints, facial recognition, Law & order, Machine Learning, research, surveillance, ufig, unfamiliar face identification group, university of huddersfield

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A15DxfJxLcc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

March 2, 2020 0 Comments advertising, Android, data analytics, data loss, data slurping, facebook, grabby apps, iOS, Law & order, lawsuit, malicious sdks, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, software development kit, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

February 28, 2020 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, biometric information privacy act, biometrics, BIPA, clearview ai, data loss, data scraping, faceprints, facial recognition, hoan ton-that, Law & order, law enforcement, Privacy, security threats

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=””/>

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Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free

February 28, 2020 0 Comments deleted evidence, drug dealer, Florida, Law & order, malware, Ransomware, security threats, stuart

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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Google has right to censor conservative nonprofit on YouTube

February 28, 2020 0 Comments appeal, censorship, conservative, dennis prager, false advertising, first amendment, Google, gun rights, islam, Law & order, nonprofit, political bias, prager university, prageru, private forum, restricted mode, state actors, terrorism, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:44:18 +0000

It’s not a “state actor”, so isn’t subject to 1st Amendment scrutiny and can censor PragerU’s videos on abortion, gun rights and terrorism.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OVLHTQuoTUc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff

February 26, 2020 0 Comments chat apps, Cryptography, cyber espionage, data loss, european commission, Law & order, messaging, messaging apps, Mobile, pegasus, Privacy, secret messaging, security threats, signal, spying, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:31:35 +0000

Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mRJrv_YSfXw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>