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A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 0 Comments ashley madison, ashley madison hack, Awareness, badrabbit, Cambridge Analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data privacy, edward snowden, emotet, exploits, facebook, Hacktivism, mat honan, notpetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, nsa tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, Ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk ransomware, security fails, shadow brokers, social media, sony, sony pictures hack, surveillance, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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US military supplier in ‘Made in America’ fraud case

November 11, 2019 0 Comments aventura, china, chinese, chinese spying, Government security, jack cabasso, Law & order, made in china, military equipment, security threats, surveillance, unlawful importation, us military

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:48:05 +0000

Aventura allegedly imported cheap cameras and network-enabled security gear from China, then slapped US flag stickers on them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/zfDZroWWndo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Global Health Security Index finds gaps in preparedness for epidemics and pandemics

October 24, 2019 0 Comments Diseases and Conditions, Health Policy, Public Health, Public Health Education, Security and Defense, surveillance, Workplace Health, World Development

A new Global Health Security Index released today, the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.

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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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Google chief warns visitors about smart speakers in his home

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Alexa, amazon, amazon echo, eavesdropping, Google, google nest, IoT, Privacy, recordings, smart speakers, surveillance

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:37:52 +0000

Rick Osterloh says he discloses smart speaker use when someone enters his home, and the products should probably do so themselves.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qRZbDKOCYpk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Contextual engineering improves success of projects in non-industrial societies

October 11, 2019 0 Comments Civil Engineering, Construction, Engineering, Engineering and Construction, Environmental Policies, Security and Defense, STEM Education, surveillance

Humanitarian engineering projects often focus on bringing western technologies to non-industrialized societies. But environmental and cultural factors in these locations may be very different from conditions in the West, and the projects may not meet client needs if engineers do not fully understand the context in which they are operating.

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Beyond the 'replication crisis,' does research face an 'inference crisis'?

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Biometric, Consumer Electronics, Dementia, Educational Policy, Engineering, Memory, Psychology, Scientific Conduct, surveillance

For the past decade, social scientists have been unpacking a 'replication crisis' that has revealed how findings of an alarming number of scientific studies are difficult or impossible to repeat. Efforts are underway to improve the reliability of findings, but cognitive psychology researchers say that not enough attention has been paid to the validity of theoretical inferences made from research findings.

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California outlaws facial recognition in police bodycams

October 10, 2019 0 Comments ab1215, aclu, american civil liberties union, automatic facial recognition, biometrics, california, facial recognition, Law & order, phil ting, police bodycams, Privacy, surveillance

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:40:29 +0000

The bill was introduced by Phil Ting: one of 26 state lawmakers misidentified as suspects in an ACLU test of the technology.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bY53XoZiIlc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Impact of police stops on youth's mental health

October 9, 2019 0 Comments Child Psychology, Depression, Educational Policy, Justice, Mental Health, PTSD, Security and Defense, surveillance

New research looks into the impact police stops have on the mental health of youth. Researchers reveal that youth experiencing intrusive police stops are at risk of heightened emotional distress. The researchers found that youth who were stopped more often by police officers were more likely to report emotional trauma.

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Predicting terror activity before it happens

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Computer Modeling, Energy Policy, Engineering, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematics, Scientific Conduct, Security and Defense, surveillance, Weapons Technology

Data scientist have developed a model that utilizes publicly available data to accurately predict how lethal a terror organization will become in the future based on only its first 10 attacks.