April 03, 2020

Watch out for the new wave of COVID-19 scams, warns IRS

If somebody promises to get your economic impact payment fast, back away: it's just one flavor of COVID-19 scam the tax agency is seeing.

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March 31, 2020

Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum

Where did it all come from? 4.9m records were posted on a hacking forum - and the country only has an estimated population of 3.7m.

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March 27, 2020

FBI takes down hacker platform Deer.io

It was a top crooks' market, with over 24,000 shops doing brisk business selling credentials for Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

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March 19, 2020

NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners

The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn't bother to respond.

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March 18, 2020

Uber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data

Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn't good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it's good for is surveillance.

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March 12, 2020

Necurs zombie botnet disrupted by Microsoft

Necurs, one of the world's biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide.

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March 11, 2020

FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts

Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.

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March 10, 2020

Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues

Crime doesn't pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues.

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February 24, 2020

KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims

The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.

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