Bitcoin Stolen From Electrum Wallets (December 27, 2018) More than 200 bitcoin has been stolen from Electrum wallets since December 21. The attacker or attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Electrum architecture that allows Electrum servers to trigger custom… Read More ›
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CyberSecurity: Another Facebook data (photo) breach
Abstract The Facebook internal team discovered a photo API bug that may have affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos. We have fixed the issue but, because of this bug, some… Read More ›
CyberSecurity News: Top week’s news (Dec 14, 2018)
US Legislators Can Spend Surplus Campaign Funds on Cybersecurity(December 13, 2018) The US Federal Elections Commission says that federal legislators may use surplus campaign funds to bolster cybersecurity for their personal devices and online accounts. The decision came in… Read More ›
CyberSecurity: State of Facial recognition security. Android phones opened by the 3D printed head
Abstract: If you’re an Android customer, though, look away from your screen now. We tested four of the hottest handsets running Google’s operating systems and Apple’s iPhone to see how easy it’d be to break into them. We did it… Read More ›
CyberSecurity: Interesting news from around security community
Marriott said more than 500 million Starwood hotel guests had their information stolen in the largest data breach in the U.S. since Yahoo. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/starwood-hotels-says-500-million-guest-records-stolen-in-massive-data-breach/ Several car makers are transmitting data from their vehicles to China’s government, including drivers’ location. https://apnews.com/4a749a4211904784826b45e812cff4ca… Read More ›
CyberSecurity: How chatbots are a new threat to democracy?
Since social media has become a media platform & news streams, Crooks & Politician, criminals etc started to exploit that. Some people argue that main stream media is so unfair & biased and social media is a way to contact… Read More ›
CyberSecurity: Machine learning can create fake fingerprints
Abstract JUST LIKE ANY lock can be picked, any biometric scanner can be fooled. Researchers have shown for years that the popular fingerprint sensors used to guard smartphones can be tricked sometimes, using a lifted print or a person’s digitized fingerprint data. But… Read More ›
