March 23, 2020

Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops

The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel.

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March 16, 2020

Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.

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February 26, 2020

Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff

Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn't up to snuff.

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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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December 05, 2019

S2 Ep19: One of us just prevented a ransomware attack – Naked Security Podcast

Listen now!

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December 05, 2019

IM RAT spy tool seller raided, busted, kicked offline

The spyware gave complete control of victimized computers, sold for as little as$25, and was bought by 14,500 hackers worldwide.

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December 04, 2019

FBI: Russia-based FaceApp is a ‘potential counterintelligence threat’

It's a grabby little app, data-wise, but how is it different from, say, Google or Facebook?

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November 04, 2019

US grounds Chinese-made drones as part of security review

The exception: drones being used in emergencies, such as fighting wildfires, search and rescue, and dealing with natural disasters.

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October 14, 2019

Soldering spy chips inside firewalls is now a cheap hack, shows researcher

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.

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