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Trump Strips Security Clearances of Ex-CISA Head Krebs, SentinelOne
President Trump stripped former CISA head Chris Krebs of his security clearances, accusing him of disloyalty for claiming the 2020 election was safe and disagreeing with him regarding the pandemic. SentinelOne, where ...
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Oracle Hack: From ‘Deny-Deny-Deny’ to ‘Oops-Oops-Oops’
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2021-35587, Larry Ellison, OCI, Oracle, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Classic, Oracle cloud, Oracle Cloud Classic, Oracle Cloud infrastructure, Oracle Fusion Cloud, rose87168, SB Blogwatch
Classic “wordplay:” Larry’s PR angels desperately dance on the head of a pin ...
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App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA
Richi Jennings | | 360 Security Technology, App Store, App Stores, Apple, CCP, china, china espionage, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, free vpn app, google, Google Play Store, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, Qihoo 360, SB Blogwatch, Signal Secure VPN, Snap VPN, Tech Transparency Project, Thunder VPN, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Turbo VPN, VPN, VPN Proxy Master
Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...
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Advanced Malware Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets
More attacks targeting cryptocurrency users. Microsoft has identified a new Remote Access Trojan, named StilachiRAT, that has sophisticated capabilities to remain stealthy and persistent so it can harvest crypto wallet credentials via ...

Spit Happens: 23andMe is Bankrupt — Secure Your DNA Data NOW Already
Double hell-ix: Personal genomics firm tells customers your data is safe—but few will trust the loss-making biotech pioneer ...
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Breaking Down Risks in Cybersecurity
Cyber Crime Junkies podcast Breaking Down Risks in Cybersecurity – A great conversation on the Cyber Crime Junkies podcast with David Mauro! We covered so many different topics that the CISOs are ...
Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
Bruce Schneier | | china, cyberattack, cyberespionage, Espionage, Hacking, law enforcement, Uncategorized
Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the ...

‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee
Richi Jennings | | Attacking Routers, china, China-linked Hackers, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese devices, chinese government, Chinese hardware, Chinese state-sponsored cyberattacks, Commerce Department, Congress, Consumer IoT, flawed routers, House of Representatives, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things cyber security, internetof things, internetofthings, internte-of-things, iot, Jeff Barney, John Moolenaar, OpenWrt, Peoples Republic of China, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Rob Joyce, router compromise, router exploit, router firmware security flaw, router hacking, router hijacking, router security, router vulnerabilities, SB Blogwatch, SOHO, SOHO and IoT device vulnerabilities, TP-LINK, U.S. Commerce Department, US Congress
Sino stoppage scheme: TP-Link in crosshairs, along with other brands ...
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Apple vs. UK — ADP E2EE Back Door Faceoff
Richi Jennings | | #nobackdoors, ADP, Apple, Apple Data Security, Apple iCloud, back door, backdoor, backdoors, Child Abuse, child exploitation, child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, cloud access, Compliance, CSAM, CSEM, E2EE, encryption, end-to-end encryption, five eyes, Five Eyes alliance, Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, Government & Regulatory News, government access, Investigatory Powers Act, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, uk, UK Investigatory Powers Act, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Won’t Tim Think of the Children? End-to-end encryption battle continues ...
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Apple Lets Stalkers Find YOU — ‘nRootTag’ Team Breaks AirTag Crypto
Richi Jennings | | AirTag, AirTags, Apple, Apple AirTag, apple bug, apple hack, apple hacker, Apple iCloud, BLE, bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth Protocol, bluetooth security, Bluetooth vulnerability, Find My iPhone, ICloud, icloud hack, nRootTag, OpenHayStack, SB Blogwatch
Dumb Design + Crud Code = Privacy Panic: It’s been SEVEN MONTHS, but Tim’s crew is yet to fix the bugs ...
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