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
- Petlog ‘misplaces’ pet owners’ details in database ‘cock-up’
- Credit card hacking forum gets hacked, exposing 300,000 hackers’ accounts
- Data for 7.3 million Dutch car owners sold on hacking forum
- Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Colorado, Miami universities
- Ransomware gang demands $50 million from computer maker Acer
- IT contractor sentenced to two years for deleting Carlsbad Company’s Microsoft User Accounts
- Tesla’s in-car cameras raise privacy concerns
- Foreign operatives were active in 2020 but did not alter vote, US officials say
- Facebook is building ‘Instagram Kids’ for children under 13
- Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
- Google removes privacy-focused ClearURLs Chrome extension
For the more technical
- BitWarden may be cutting corners in its “third-party” security compliance audits
- The winners of the 2020 GCP VRP Prize
- MyBB 1.8.25 – Poll Vote Count SQL Injection
- MyBB 1.8.25 – Chained Remote Command Execution
- Defences against Cobalt Strike
- Recovering a full PEM Private Key when half of it is redacted
- The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
- Assessing the state of breached data search services
- Second independent audit of SecureDrop Workstation completed
- APT encounters of the third kind
- Purple Fox malware worms its way into exposed Windows systems
- Microsoft Exchange servers now targeted by Black Kingdom ransomware
- Highlights from the 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report
- A passport to freedom? Fake COVID-19 test results and vaccination certificates offered on Darknet and hacking forums
- Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Statistics for H2 2020
- How fleeceware apps have earned over $400 million on Android and iOS
- Facebook: Taking action against hackers in China
- Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
- Threat advisory – DCCP for (D)DoS
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