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Soon You May Not Even Have to Click on a Website Contract to Be Bound by Its Terms — ProPublica

ProPublica 2d

A private and influential legal group you’ve never heard of is about to vote on what critics call a fundamental rollback of consumer rights.

Ransomware Cyberattacks Knock Baltimore's City Services Offline

NPR 2d

Baltimore is just the latest municipality hit with a ransomware attack. Residents can't use the city servers they need to purchase homes, pay online bills or email city workers.

GO WITH THE OVERFLOW

How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just A Phone Call

A new report alleges that an Israeli spy firm developed a WhatsApp exploit that could inject malware onto targeted phones — and steal data from them — simply by calling them. The targets didn't need to pick up to be infected, and the calls often left no trace on the phone's log.

What Happened With Supermicro?

Hack a Day 1w

Back in October 2018, a bombshell rocked the tech industry when Bloomberg reported that some motherboards made by Supermicro had malicious components on them that were used to spy or interfere with…

THE CHIPS ARE DOWN

Meltdown Redux: Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets From Millions Of PCs

Researchers have uncovered yet another flaw in the deepest guts of Intel's microscopic hardware. This time, it can allow attackers to eavesdrop on virtually every bit of raw data that a victim's processor touches.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING

Is TikTok A Chinese Cambridge Analytica Data Bomb Waiting To Explode?

Quartz Security Internet China 2w

If the cataclysmic scandal taught us anything, it was that some of the secrets of the data trade wars are buried in the fine print no one reads.

HACK BACKS

How Chinese Spies Got The NSA's Hacking Tools, And Used Them For Attacks

The New York Times China Security Technology 2w

Based on the timing of the attacks and clues in the computer code, researchers with the firm Symantec believe the Chinese did not steal the code but captured it from an NSA attack on their own computers — like a gunslinger who grabs an enemy's rifle and starts blasting away.

RETHINKING RECONN

The Spycraft Revolution

Foreign Policy Long Reads Security 3w

Changes in technology, politics and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt — or risk irrelevance.

KEEP THE IDENTITY THIEVES AT BAY

How Password Managers Keep Your Data Secure

Security Technology Explainer Video 3w

These experts highly recommend you download a password manager and use it religiously.

TO HELP YOU GET OUT OF A BAD SITUATION

Professional Driver Demonstrates Tactical Driving Maneuvers

Cars Explainer Security Video 3w

"If you're using any of [these] skills, you've probably done something really silly or gotten into a hornet's nest of trouble."

A LOW BAR

The Inception Bar: A New Phishing Method

jameshfisher.com Internet Security 3w

Welcome to HSBC, the world's seventh-largest bank! Of course, the page you're reading isn't actually hosted on hsbc.com; it's hosted on jameshfisher.com.

EVERYWHERE CAMERAS

How China Is Building The Biggest Surveillance Apparatus The World Has Ever Known

China Security Video Technology 3w

And training the world's autocrats to follow in their footsteps.

NEEDS ENCRYPTION, OH, YESTERDAY

Slack Warns Investors It's A Target For Nation-State Hacking

Motherboard Technology News Security 3w

As Slack prepares to go public, the company is warning potential investors that it's a target for malicious attacks from "sophisticated organized crime, nation-state and nation-state supported actors," according to an SEC filing published today.

SWEEPING IT UNDER THE MUELLER REPORT RUG

Facebook Now Says 'Millions' Of Instagram Users' Passwords Were Stored In Plaintext

TechCrunch Facebook Technology News Security 5w

Facebook has confirmed its password-related security incident last month now affects "millions" of Instagram users, not "tens of thousands" as first thought.

'NOBODY IS QUITE WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE'

What It's Like To Be Targeted By An (Alleged) Private Spy

The Daily Beast Security Russia 5w

It all started at the end of April 2018, with an email out of the blue to my address at Chatham House, the London-based think tank, asking me if I would be willing to speak at a conference. That meeting was odd, but not so odd that I was sure it was a set-up.

NO LONGER OUR DOMAIN

Cyberspies Hijacked The Internet Domains Of Entire Countries

Wired Security Crime Internet 5w

One team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick: DNS hijacking, a technique that meddles with the fundamental address book of the internet.