I have written before about how our smartphones are ratting out our location, using GPS and even just cell tower location information. The New York Times recently published a story that followed a woman throughout her day and discovered that her location was collected over 8000 in a single day. From the location database they purchased from a location data broker, they were ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.More disconcerting news for router owners – a new assessment of 28 popular models for home users failed to find a single one with firmware that had fully enabled underlying security hardening features offered by Linux.
CITL (Cyber Independent Testing Laboratories) says it made this unexpected discovery after analysing firmware images from Asus, ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.12/13/2018 06:59 PM EST Original release date: December 13, 2018
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is aware of a worldwide email campaign targeting businesses and organizations with bomb threats. The emails claim that a device will detonate unless a ransom in Bitcoin ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
The Marriott hotel empire’s Starwood guest reservation database has been subject to unauthorised access since 2014.
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Two-factor and multi-factor authentication historically have been based on using two or more of three criteria: something you know (passwords), something you have (security token) or something you are (biometrics such as fingerprints). There have been two new additions to MFA criteria: something you do (keyboard cadence or mouse movement), and somewhere you are (geo-location through GPS or public IP address).
Google has been busy heightening the security for it’s account holders ...
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