Strava heatmap loophole may reveal users’ home addresses
Anonymous data on fitness app Strava’s heatmap may be able to be used to pinpoint users. Researchers at NC State University have outlined potential privacy…
Month: June 2023
Hacking Fortinet’s Fortigate firewalls to install a ransomware is quite possible
FortiOS is the operating system and firmware that powers Fortinet’s Fortigate firewalls and other devices. Fortinet has issued many versions of FortiOS without noting that…
Ada Lovelace Institute warns against Covid app reuse
Governments and policy-makers need to assess the ramifications of the technological response that was deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, a report from the Ada Lovelace…
New FortiOS RCE bug “may have been exploited” in attacks
Fortinet says a critical FortiOS SSL VPN vulnerability that was patched last week “may have been exploited” in attacks impacting government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure…
Pink Drainer Posed as Journalists, Stole $3M from Discord and Twitter Users
It has been determined that the Pink Drainer hackers have managed to pilfer approximately $3 million from nearly 1,932 victims. A notorious hacker group known…
Airwallex uses own IT as quality benchmark – Finance – Strategy – Security – Software
Airwallex’s Elliot Colquhoun. Airwallex is aiming for its internal IT and security tools to set a high bar for quality and efficacy that is then…
Regulatory ‘lacuna’ around facial recognition threatens rights
The increasing use of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras to automatically collect biometric data points to an Orwellian future; one which bears witness to the…
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisors…
Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network
The Netherlands has completed the nationwide roll out of contactless payments on its public transport network, enabling all journeys to be paid for using credit…
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians | WIRED
On the evening of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based news portal The Fourth reported that a Telegram bot in a channel called “hak4learn” was…
Clop may have been sitting on MOVEit vulnerability for two years
The threat actors behind the Clop (Cl0p in some variants) cyber crime gang currently holding the likes of British Airways (BA), Boots and the BBC…
UK gets new rules to regulate crypto sector
Crypto firms that want to market their products in the UK will need to introduce new measures to protect consumers from rogue operators, including a…