Tractors, Pod Ice Cream and Lipstick Awarded CES 2021 Worst in Show
Expert panel awards dubious honors to 2021 Consumer Electronics Show’s biggest flops, including security and privacy failures. [...]
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Florida Ethics Officer Charged with Cyberstalking
Judge bars former Tallahassee city ethics officer from internet-connected devices after her arrest for cyberstalking. [...]
TikTok Takes Teen Accounts Private
The company announced accounts for ages 13-15 will default to privacy setting, among other safety measures. [...]
Data Breach at ‘Resident Evil’ Gaming Company Widens
Capcom, the game developer behind Resident Evil, Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers, now says its recent attack compromised the personal data of up to 400,000 gamers. [...]
Aliens and UFOs: A Final Frontier for Social Engineers
The release of a CIA archive on UFOs is exactly the kind of headline-making event that phishing and scam actors long for. [...]
Malicious Software Infrastructure Easier to Get and Deploy Than Ever
Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. [...]
Fired Healthcare Exec Stalls Critical PPE Shipment for Months
A fired Stradis Healthcare employee sought revenge by tampering with shipping data for desperately needed healthcare PPE. [...]
It’s Not the Trump Sex Tape, It’s a RAT
Criminals are using the end of the Trump presidency to deliver a new remote-access trojan (RAT) variant disguised as a sex video of the outgoing POTUS, researchers report. [...]
Cyberattacks on Healthcare Spike 45% Since November
The relentless rise in COVID-19 cases is battering already frayed healthcare systems — and ransomware criminals are using the opportunity to strike. [...]
Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API
Researcher uses an old unCAPTCHA trick against latest the audio version of reCAPTCHA, with a 97 percent success rate. [...]
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