Giving new meaning to the term “Cable News,” SC Media’s Senior Reporter Bradley Barth invited four cyber experts on a round-trip, San Francisco cable car ride from the Market Street/Union Square neighborhood to Phisherman’s – whoops, make that Fisherman’s – Wharf and back. Here’s what they had to say about the latest security news and trends buzzing around…
What are the biggest points of contention impeding passage of federal privacy legislation (and 3 other security laws)? Government at any level is infamous for moving at a snail’s pace, as politics, red tape and competing interests often get in the way of progress. Technology, on the other hand, moves at lightning speed. Unfortunately, this…
Who’s in charge: Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox, Director of Elections Justin Lee Security in action: Utah uses a vote by mail system in all but two counties (Carbon and Emery). The two outliers instead use direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines that at least provide a paper-based audit trail. However, even more counties allow auditable DREs for…
An FBI official has denied an accusation from President Donald Trump that Chinese hackers infiltrated Hillary Clinton’s private server and accessed classified information.
U.S. prosecutors in Alaska last week filed charges against a Washington man who is allegedly linked to the Satori IoT botnet that infected more than 280,000 IP addresses in 12 hours upon its debut in late 2017.
Revising its privacy policies, encrypted messaging service Telegram this week announced on its website that moving forward it will cooperate with terror investigations by providing relevant authorities with suspects’ IP addresses and phone numbers, pending a court order.
A newly discovered mobile malware implant nicknamed BusyGasper might leave some Android users breathless, if they knew about the unusual set of features the spyware uses to snoop on them.
Air Canada yesterday warned customers of “unusual login behavior” on its mobile app between Aug. 22 and 24, during which time a portion of its account profiles may have been accessed in unauthorized fashion. Of the airline’s 1.7 million user profiles, roughly one percent or 20,000 profiles may potentially be affected by the breach. Customers…
Researchers have discovered a point-of-sale malware program, RtPOS, that saves payment card data locally but does not exfiltrate it to a command-and-control server, perhaps so its activity is less likely to be detected as anomalous.
Despite fears that GDPR restrictions could hinder researchers’ ability to identify and shut down spammers, it does not appear that junk email campaigns have accelerated their operations since the sweeping data privacy regulations took effect in Europe on May 25.
