Freedom Phone’s Signal Not-so-private Messenger. Conferencing apps are listening when they shouldn’t be. The Copyright Crowd are back. Apple’s app tracking transparency costs Meta more than originally thought. SpaceX beats Russian jamming. Ted Lieu wants warrants for metadata. SEC wants cybersecurity in the board room.
Intro to open-source firmware. Don’t give away too much info.
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GPS Jamming near Ukraine. Goodwill Ransomware. Patch your systems already! Clever password skimmer site. Refugee carries life savings on thumb drive as Bitcoin. Mariupol computer museum destroyed. RIP Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF.
Pwns of the week: Transneft, Nestlé, Microsoft, Okta. Fail of the week: AEG
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IRS drops ID.me. Ransomware demands you like and subscribe to its channel. Geofence warrant used in Seattle. Lockbit has a new version. Germany and France will be fine without Facebook.
The EARN-IT act is back. Kill it before it metastasizes.
Pwn of the week: Vodafone Portugal. Fail of the week: Mazda.
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T-Mobile hacker says the carrier’s security is awful. Single-factor authentication is bad. GPL enforcement made difficult in France. Windows 11 requires a webcam. PEF wants to continue working from home. Voting system software leaked; should be open-source anyway.
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The chip shortage continues. Razer mouse driver vulnerabilities. Chrome vulnerabilities. Social media-based credit scores. DRM in power tools. Voting machine password treachery. The end of landlines in the UK. Busy week of pwnage. OpSec for the whole family
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