Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:22:01 +0000
The fingerprint reader on Samsung’s flagship S10 and Note10 smartphones can be spoofed with a $3 screen protector.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aBFtLqNUr_M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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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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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:21:35 +0000
It had an Ethernet connection to the ship LAN but was also connected to a Windows console on the bridge which was so bright at night the crew had covered it up. The assumption had been that it was meant to be there.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JHJliLzwFeQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:06:06 +0000
They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RIxUWTXL53k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:54:55 +0000
Adobe patched a total of 82 vulnerabilities across a range of products on Tuesday, including 46 critical bugs.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/g6fa2l2I0F8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:53:52 +0000
Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what’s a good security tool.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/QJiDHTqtHDo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:25:50 +0000
Two more large organisations find themselves struggling after a ransomware attack…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/FnL73iuw19c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:06:07 +0000
The flaw is a rare ‘unquoted path class’ described as “so thoroughly documented that you would expect programmers to be well aware…” But that’s not the case.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/PLucYEnVB5k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:01:04 +0000
The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesn’t look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/I8hFrWixXu4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:33:42 +0000
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ohkoUzZ8kvQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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