For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus — particularly as it appears that variants of the virus could be more transmissible. The need for widespread contact tracing at the start of t…
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Keybase is owned by Zoom and currently has almost half a million privacy-focused users. Here’s how it kept chat images that were retrievable.
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Databases are the lifeblood store of information for every organization. Without them, the organization’s efficiency, productivity and scope to prosper would be curtailed severely. Protecting the company crown jewels is something that most organization…
The OpenSSL Project addressed three vulnerabilities, including two denial-of-service (DoS) issues and a bug in the SSLv2 rollback protection. The OpenSSL Project released security patches to address three vulnerabilities, two denial-of-service (DoS) flaws, and an incorrect SSLv2 rollback protection issue. The fist vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-23841, is a NULL pointer dereference issue that can be […]
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One of the challenges with the current pace of innovation is deciphering what is real and what is vaporware. Most of us are understandably skeptical when we hear of technical advances that sound too good to be true – our skepticism is rooted in our exp…
A research study conducted by Deep Instinct reports on the hundreds of millions of attempted cyberattacks that occurred every day throughout 2020 showing malware increased by 358% overall and ransomware increased by 435% as compared with 2019. Report h…
Edward Snowden tries to convince me to worry more about privacy. “They’re trying to shape your behavior!” he warns.I rudely say: “Americans by and large don’t care, and I mostly don’t care. I figure that teenage boy across the street could be picking up the stuff I send. The cork’s out of the bottle. What difference does it make?”Snowden has good answers. —- Don’t miss the weekly video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 —- Google’s former CEO once said, creepily: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”Snowden points out that we will feel pressured to “constrain our intellectual curiosity, and even frankly, our weirdnesses … because we could potentially someday be judged on the basis for it.”Another scary thing about today’s internet is that big tech companies have the power to manipulate. Facebook even did a study that confirmed they could make users angrier by controlling which posts they saw.”This is controlling human behavior by a private company!” Snowden points out. “For what end? Just to see if they could… the next variants… are not going to be just to see if they could. It is going to be for their advantage. It is going to be to shape laws, it is going to be to shape elections.”More of Snowden’s points, and my pushback on whether tech companies are really “monopolies”, in the video above.
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The flaw originated in the way the Telegram app handled animated stickers and how the secret chat functionality operated.
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Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, say researchers who have probed the devices for weak points. Common security issues such as non-encrypted data, insecure…
Cryptography is a vital part of cybersecurity. Security properties like confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation rely on strong cryptographic mechanisms, especially in an always connected, always online world. Quantum computing and e…