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Keylogging data vampire pleads guilty to bleeding two companies

October 25, 2019 0 Comments data loss, Department of Justice, keyloggers, keylogging, Law & order, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:04:06 +0000

He drained data from firms working on hot new technology, sneaking in with a fake access badge, planting hardware and software keyloggers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/m3yduCwBOnU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Phishers strike at mobile wellness app company

October 25, 2019 0 Comments BEC, business email compromise, evergreen life, phishing, phishing attack, security threats, wellness

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:35:36 +0000

What were the phishers after? People’s login details for Office 365.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/VrgS1241pEg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Vulnerability in content distribution networks found by researchers

October 24, 2019 0 Comments Akamai, cdns, content distribution networks, cpdos, http, hypertext transfer protocol, security threats, vulnerability, web servers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:41:44 +0000

Researchers have found a flaw that could lead to denial of service attacks on content distribution networks around the world.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/R2nlTpWWhFQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Robot Hotel says sorry about the buggy bedside bots

October 24, 2019 0 Comments androids, bed-bots, code signing, henn na hotel, his group, his hotel group, japan, nfc tag, peeping toms, Privacy, robot hotels, robots, security threats, smart speakers, surveillance, tapia, unsigned code, voice assistants, voice recognition, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:39:48 +0000

Japan’s Henn na Hotel says it’s “modified” the bots so pervs can’t exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6qgRyj8P2OY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Stalker app maker Retina-X settles FTC charges

October 24, 2019 0 Comments data loss, Law & order, malware, mobilespy, phonesheriff, Privacy, retina-x, security threats, spyware, Stalkerware, stalking apps, teenshield

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:59:48 +0000

It’s the first time we’ve gone after a stalking app, the FTC said. In this case, that would be a stalking app that got breached – twice.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/LN5zrcziLXw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN

October 23, 2019 0 Comments data breach, data hack, data leak, Hacker, NordVPN, Privacy, security threats, torguard, virtual private network, vpn, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:41:12 +0000

NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/f5mz8QmYkC8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Travel database exposed PII on US government employees

October 23, 2019 0 Comments amazon, AWS, best western, best western hotel & resorts group, data breach, data loss, department of homeland security, Elasticsearch, PII, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:40 +0000

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ya-mCNqAOjw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Storing your stuff securely in the cloud

October 22, 2019 0 Comments backups, Cloud Security, cloud storage, data access, data loss, data security, Rogue insider, security threats

Credit to Author: Maria Varmazis| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:24:10 +0000

How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let’s look at the risks and how to mitigate them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/27shf2RZHS8″ 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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Don’t look now, but Pixel 4’s Face Unlock works with eyes closed

October 21, 2019 0 Comments Android, biometrics, face ID, face unlock, facial recognition, Google, google pixel, Mobile, pixel 4, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:47:32 +0000

There’s a risk that someone might get hold of a device and unlock it by holding the screen to the face of its sleeping or unconscious owner.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AneJMxh1HJk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>