Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers. Telegram, the not-so-secure messaging app, has a vulnerability that exposes users’ precise geolocation — but Telegram has no plans to fix it. I know fleeing WhatsApp users are looking for a better home, but…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: First thing’s first, at the start of this year, WTH NerdNews is renamed to TWINN for This Week In Nerd News. The focus is still in 5 mins or less to get up to speed with the most important stories and events of…
DetailsLast one this year… enjoy! Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: SOLARWINDS HACK INFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING POWER INDUSTRY. At least 15 critical infrastructure firms in the electric, oil, and manufacturing industries were running the backdoored SolarWinds Orion software (per @kimzetter). Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab. I know this is starting to sound like it’s the same song over and over. Same with the mitigation. Effective egress control is the only mitigation. Microsoft is reportedly added…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Google had an outage for about an hour this morning. I don’t recall having seen all services have a problem at the same time before. Hopefully we’ll hear from them about the cause. DHS, DOJ And DOD Are All Customers Of SolarWinds…
DetailsCitizen Lab finds surveillance tech that can find you with just a phone number. This may generate a new need and want for increased privacy, now that we know how many governments have been using this service to locate citizens, albeit unlawfully. It’s hard to keep a big botnet down: TrickBot sputters back toward full…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes. Just need a visible VIN number and about $300 in hardware as illustrated. Networking giant Belden says hackers accessed data on employees, business partners. To attackers, no giant is too big…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. The trouble with free apps. The app makers must make revenue somewhere and selling data is lucrative. Windows 10: Microsoft reveals Pluton security chip – ‘Expect Patch Tuesday-type updates’. Microsoft promises Pluton…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach. Ticketmaster had a breach in 2018 via a third-party chat bot on its site that exposed the credit card details of tens of thousands of customers. Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware…
DetailsYour weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Apple patches iOS against 3 actively exploited 0-days found by Google. Probably the most important/urgent upgrade ever. Don’t wait for 14.2 upgrade, do it now. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road. Speculation kicked off…
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