Security

How secure is your organization’s messaging ecosystem? Eric Lifson, co-founder and marketing head at Skrumble, discusses enterprise messaging utilizing distributed servers, blockchain and encryption. A security vulnerability in one of the world’s most commonly used enterprise video conferencing tools could have allowed hackers to eavesdrop on private business meetings. Zoom ...

The Singapore government has ordered local access to a website to be blocked for failing to comply with a correction directive issued under the country’s online falsehoods law. Malaysia-based Lawyers for Liberty, which operates the site, has filed a motion against the Singapore government over the issue.  Singapore’s Minster for ...

Image: APH If irony didn’t die in the last week, it is more than likely sitting in a British hospital with its feet up, as it recovers from a severe coronary event. But before we get into the medical issues of literary techniques, a little history lesson. In 2012, long ...

Security researchers from Sophos say they’ve discovered a new set of “fleeceware” apps that appear to have been downloaded and installed by more than 600 million Android users. The term fleeceware is a recent addition to the cyber-security jargon. It was coined by UK cyber-security firm Sophos last September following ...

Image: Brett Jordan A Princeton University academic study published yesterday found that five major US prepaid wireless carriers are vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks. A SIM swap is when an attacker calls a mobile provider and tricks the telco’s staff into changing a victim’s phone number to an attacker-controlled SIM ...

Image: npm Only 9.27% of all maintainers of npm JavaScript libraries use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts. The number is incredibly low and a major issue of concern for the npm security team, who’d like to see this figure grow in the coming year. Npm, which stands for Node ...

image: Michael Altfield A software engineer has designed a so-called USB “kill cable” that works as a dead man’s switch to shut down or wipe a Linux laptop when the device is stolen off your table or from your lap in public spaces like parks, malls, and internet cafes. The ...

Image: Wyze, ZDNet Wyze, a company that sells smart devices like security cameras, smart plugs, smart lightbulbs, and smart door locks, confirmed today a server leak that exposed the details of roughly 2.4 million customers. The leak occurred after an internal database was accidentally exposed online, Wyze co-founder Dongsheng Song ...

Apple starts fixing iOS multitasking bug Adrian Kingsley-Hughes finds iOS 13.3 developer beta is better, but a full fix may be weeks away. Read more: https://zd.net/34CrpOa Citrix has disclosed a severe bug in its Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), which is used by at least 80,000 organizations. And for now, ...

Image: NCA A 22-year-old man was sentenced today in London for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, during which the suspect and co-conspirators threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts and factory reset 250 million iPhones and iPads. The man, Kerem Albayrak, was sentenced today to a two-year suspended jail ...