Brazil Govt’s Huge Leak: Health Data of 243M
Brazil’s Ministry of Health is under fire again for another massive leak of personal information ... Read More
Second Swiss Firm Said to Be CIA Encryption Puppet
First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA ... Read More
Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data
After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ... Read More
Congress Passes IoT Security Act, but is it Toothless?
The House and the Senate have both passed a bipartisan bill to shore up the security of “internet of things” devices ... Read More
Japanese Orgs Hacked ‘by China’ in Long, Widespread Campaign
Chinese state-backed threat actors APT10 have been hacking Japanese businesses for at least a year ... Read More
Trump Fires DHS Cybersecurity Agency Over Election Remarks
Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has been fired by President Trump. His crime? Making a “highly inaccurate” statement about the 2020 presidential election. CISA called the election “the most secure in American history,” which Mister Trump disputes. The president continues to argue it was tainted ... Read More
Vertafore Leak: Private Data of 28M Texans
An insurance software vendor ’fessed up to losing control of a huge cache of personal data. Vertafore lost the details of 27,700,000 Texas drivers ... Read More
Disconnect Your TCL Smart TV From the Internet—NOW
Researchers are sounding the alarm about Android TVs from TCL. A pair of bugs make them serious targets for hackers, and the TVs have a Chinese backdoor ... Read More
Great British Prank: Company Name Contains XSS Hack
A prankster registered a British company name containing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Hilarity ensued ... Read More
23% of Windows in Use is Old, Insecure Win7 or XP
Windows 7 and XP are obsolete, but that hasn’t stopped almost a quarter of Windows users using them. It’s a security nightmare waiting to happen ... Read More
