Recently, Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection stated that one of its priorities would be to “combat bad practices in the lead generation market.” 33 Antitrust ABA 75, 76 (Spring 2019). Smith suggested the FTC was concerned about the entire ecosystem’s bad practices. He echoed his remarks during Comply 2019, an…
A vulnerability in the Google Camera Application left millions of Google and Samsung smartphones open to being potentially abused potentially letting a malicious actor to take photos, download images and video and listen in to phone calls. The flaw, CVE-2019-2234, is a permission bypass issue that enables real-time access to a phone through the camera…
Intezer Security has found a new backdoor, ACBackdoor, that has no known connection to an operating threat group creating the possibility it could be a harbinger of a new gang’s formation. ACBackdoor is primarily a Linux malware, but Intezer has spotted a Windows variant and the company believes it was created by an experienced group…
History will be made on April 1, 2020. For the first time, the United States Census will offer a full internet response option, in addition to traditional paper responses. The digitization of the census is meant to address the challenges of counting an increasingly large and diverse population, while also complying with strict cost constraints…
The huge marketing campaign behind the launch of Disney’s new streaming service and the massive response it elicited from consumers was too much of a temptation for cybercriminals as they flocked to decipher and then resell the user accounts. An investigation by ZD Net found the brand-new user Disney+ accounts being hawked for between $3…
About 1,800 people, including 500 Fairfax, Va., county police department employees, had their PII possibly exposed when a USB drive carrying the information went missing. The USB drive containing the full names, birth dates and Social Security numbers for the Fairfax police officers and other employees belonged to Police Chief Cynthia McAlister, who heads the…
Experienced cybersecurity leaders are beginning to call for a move from reactive detection to proactive prevention. It’s clear that the need to get ahead of the cybersecurity curve is real. Over the past decade, experts talked about the number of days that malware is in your system, and now the discussion is fast becoming how…
An engineering and computer science professor and his team from The Ohio State University discovered a design flaw in low-powered Bluetooth devices that leaves them susceptible to hacking. Zhiqiang Lin, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the university, found the commonly used Bluetooth Low Energy devices, such as fitness trackers and smart speakers,…
Solara Medical Supplies reported on November 13 that its system was exposed for several months earlier this year after several employees fell for a phishing scam giving access to their Office 365 accounts to an unauthorized person. The illegal access was discovered on June 28, 2019 and a further investigation found the data breach existed…
Even as the technology industry continues to scramble to protect personal computers, datacenters and other traditional IT systems from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, a new attack target has emerged – the Internet of Things (IoT). To protect their IoT applications from attack, organizations are working to adopt for the IoT the same cybersecurity strategy which has…
