A week later the revelation that Facebook leaked data from 500 million users (including phone numbers and other potentially sensitive information) and that the company has yet to give a full account of what happened. But we were able to find out both that the root of the problem was Facebook’s “import contacts” feature, and that Facebook had plenty of opportunities to fix this problem before the attackers scratched the data of half a million people.
On Thursday, federal agents arrested a 28-year-old Texas man for alleged conspiracies to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. According to court documents, he had posted alarming posts on the forums of MyMilitia.com, which someone reported to the FBI. While a worrying incident, national terrorism experts say there is no indication that Big Tech is a more pronounced target than in years past, despite the far-right’s intensified rhetoric surrounding alleged censorship.
The encrypted messaging app Signal announced this week that it would begin integrating the relatively new cryptocurrency MobileCoin. While a payment feature helps Signal keep up with its most complete competitors, the move raised questions about whether Signal invited the regulator’s interest and over-complicated a product for its simplicity and ease of use. .
As Slack and Discord have gained popularity during the pandemic, they have also become more popular among hackers as a way to distribute malware. And as Twitch’s own micro-celebrities become more prominent, the service has established an official policy to enforce serious off-platform bad behavior.
The UK wants to stop Facebook’s attempts to extend its end-to-end encryption. Russia may have found a new way to censor the Internet and Twitter is gaining weight. I Call of Duty the tricks are increasingly full of malware on board.
Finally, it’s rare to take a look inside the National Security Agency, but three women involved in cybersecurity in the intelligence community gave WIRED an inside look at the opportunities and obstacles they have defined. their careers.
And there is more! Each week we gather all the news that WIRED did not cover in depth. Click on the headlines to read the full news. And stay safe.
Remember this Facebook leak? Of couse! We just spent a lot of time on it. Not to be outdone, LinkedIn this week confirmed that a forum for sale on hacker forums includes “publicly visible member profile data that appears to have been extracted from LinkedIn,” in addition to other web sources. LinkedIn was not hacked (this time!), But was the victim of attackers who figured out how to collect publicly available user information on a large scale. It was even thought that you were already online, personal data grouped in this way still benefits hackers and phishers in particular, who can use it to create your profiles to improve your targeting.
More than 27 tonnes of cocaine have been confiscated in Antwerp over the past two months, according to Belgian police. More intriguingly, authorities claim they were initially sent to the shipments after deciphering hundreds of millions of messages sent to the defunct encrypted phone company and the Sky ECC network. Dutch and Belgian authorities had previously arrested dozens of people allegedly involved in drug trafficking behind Sky’s back.
This week, two Dutch researchers demonstrated that they could remotely control a computer with Zoom without any user interaction. No specific details have been revealed, as Zoom has not yet corrected the underlying bugs. The team’s discovery won them $ 200,000 at Pwn2Own, a bimonthly competition for white-hat hackers. “We are working to mitigate this issue regarding Zoom Chat, our group messaging product,” Zoom said in a statement. “The problem does not affect the Zoom Meetings and Zoom Video chat. The attack must also come from an accepted external contact or be part of the target’s own organizational account.”
In these quarantine times it is natural to experience an increase in personal consumption of wine. This has not gone unnoticed by scammers, who according to new investigations by Recorded Future and Area 1 Security have registered more and more malicious domains aimed at enophiles. At the peak of June, malicious domains accounted for 7 percent of all wine-themed domains registered. Talk about grapes … acid …
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