The operations of one of the world's most notorious cybercrime gangs has been disrupted by a group of international law enforcement agencies. TechCrunch has the details:
Around 13,000 Wyze customers were able to see inside other people's homes during what the smart home camera company is calling an outage from third-party web services. Thousands of people had access to thumbnails of strangers homes and around 1,500 could view full-sized stills or recorded events.
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Researchers from King's College London conducted a survey among 600 people and found the majority of women were more likely to gain online security advice from friends and family than helpful internet resources. Dr Kovila Coopamootoo, lecturer in computer science, said it highlighted "the gender norms at play in online safety and the role that gender identity plays in staying safe online.”
Passwords, encryption keys, banking details and other sensitive data have been vulnerable to theft, according to a senior Google researcher. Daniel Moghimi discovered the "Downfall" vulnerability and its affects on Intel processors launched between 2015 and 2019.
Tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft and other software firms have been busy this summer releasing updates to fix flaws in their systems exploited in recent attacks. Here's what you need to know about the major patches.
Your email provides "the keys to the kingdom," protecting and giving you access to banking logins, social media profiles, online memberships and more. One woman almost lost thousands of dollars to scammers who accessed her email, leaving her locked out of online accounts and receiving unsolicited letters from banks and credit card providers. Here's her story and how to keep your email account secure.
Incisive oped from former head of cyber security at GCHQ, calling the mass surveillance provision in the UK's Online Safety Bill "a hugely controversial power that damages Britain’s reputation for online security."
Not only will people get jailed for refusal to surrender keys and passwords, violating their right to remain silent and not incriminate themselves, but #GCHQ is literally comitting #MassSurveillance against entire nations with neither #warrant nor declaration of war.