Apple will temporarily suspend its practice of allowing human contractors to grade snippets recordings of Siri conversations for accuracy. The move follows a Guardian report in which a former worker claimed contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex” as part of their job. While Apple says user requests…
London-based educational software maker Pearson reported on Wednesday a data breach involving about 13,000 school and university AIMSweb 1.0 accounts. Exposed data included first and last names, dates of birth, and emails, Pearson said in a blog post. While the company didn’t give any details surrounding what caused the incident, it did say strict data…
Independent researcher xxdesmus discovered a Honda Motor Company database leaking the data of 134 million rows, roughly 40GB, of employee information. The researcher discovered the database July 4, 2019 and then began trying to contact Honda, which was accomplished early on July 6, 2019. By that evening the database had been secured, according to a…
A group of researchers developed an attack to trick “Level 0” autonomous vehicle sensors by using drones which project images too quick for humans to see but slow enough for the vehicle’s sensors. Level 0 autonomy systems advise human drivers but don’t directly operate the vehicle and Ben Gurion University security researchers performed the experiment…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a warning that small aircraft can easily be hacked by threat actors who have physical access to the vehicles. By hacking into the aircrafts’ CAN bus system, threat actors can take control of key navigation systems and easily manipulate telemetry data potentially resulting in loss of control of…
Security firm Immunity has developed a working BlueKeep exploit module and added it to an automated exploitation platform, raising concerns that threat actors may be able to use the tool to recreate WannaCry scale attacks. The product is available for what some are describing as an “expensive” monthly rate and was released because “it’s important…
Google Project Zero researchers discovered six iPhone security vulnerabilities, one of which remains unpatched, and four of which could lead to the execution of malicious code. All of the vulnerabilities are “interaction-less,” meaning they can be run without any interaction from a user and can be exploited via SMS, MMS, Visual Voicemail, iMessage and Mail, according…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning users of multiple vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications. The vulnerabilities are in the Palo Alto GlobalProtect portal and GlobalProtect Gateway interface products, FortiGuard FortiOS system product, and Pulse Security Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure products and could allow threat actors to take…
Someone hacked the Twitter account of actress and businesswoman Jessica Alba to post bigoted, racist, and homophobic tweets this past Sunday. The attacks came as a surprise for fans since Alba barely tweets anyway with her last tweet being about dinner with her husband and friends on July 20. The hacker also included a tweet…
The Brazilian Justice Ministry announced hackers targeted cell phones used by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The announcement came in a statement made Thursday after a federal police briefing which referred to the incident “as a matter of national security,” according to Reuters. The ministry claimed the cyberattack came from a group of four people arrested…
