Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Google faces class action for allegedly tracking private browsing activity
- Grandmother posting Facebook photos of her grandchildren violates GDPR privacy rule, court says
- With the coronavirus under control, this Chinese city wants to score and rank its residents based on their health and lifestyle
- Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate
- Hacking Team founder: ‘Hacking Team is dead’
- Hacker leaks database of dark web hosting provider
- Hackers plan to use stolen cryptocurrency exchange data for SIM swapping
- A whopping 13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number
- Tor Browser makes it easier to visit mainstream websites’ .onion addresses
- The biggest leaks revealed by Edward Snowden
For the more technical
- Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
- Apple releases iOS 13.5.1, patching out the Unc0ver jailbreak
- Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution
- Wallpaper crash explained: Here’s how a simple image can soft-brick phones
- An EL1/EL3 coldboot vulnerability affecting 7 years of LG Android devices
- Android Security Bulletin—June 2020
- Full infrastructure takeover of VMware Cloud Director (CVE-2020-3956)
- Any Mitron (viral TikTok clone) profile can be hacked in seconds
- Dabangg: Time for fearless flush based cache attacks (PDF)
- Research report – Zephyr and MCUboot security assessment
- Joomla team discloses data breach
- Ongoing eCh0raix ransomware campaign targets QNAP NAS devices
- Ransomware gang says it breached one of NASA’s IT contractors
- Fake ransomware decryptor double-encrypts desperate victims’ files
- Tycoon ransomware targets education and software sectors
- REvil ransomware operators targets Elexon
- Nworm: TrickBot gang’s new stealthy malware spreading module
- Cycldek: Bridging the (air) gap
- The zero-day exploits of Operation WizardOpium
- Famous video apps with 157M+ installations operating as spyware
- Large scale attack campaign targets database credentials
- The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
- Stolen YouTube credentials growing in popularity on dark web forums
- Analysing the (alleged) Minneapolis police department “hack”
- Privacy threats in intimate relationships
- (How) do people change their passwords after a breach? (PDF)
- Looking back at how Signal works, as the world moves forward
- iMessage for Windows
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