Bluetooth Signals Can Be Used to Track Smartphones, Say Researchers
Researchers demonstrated a possible way to track individuals via Bluetooth signals.
Privacy
Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker
Sabre and Travelport had to report the weekly activities of former “Cardplanet” cybercriminal Aleksei Burkov for two years, info that eventually led to his arrest and prosecution.
The Challenge Digital Executive Protection Poses to Enterprise Security Teams
CISOs do heroic work protecting their executives when inside the organization’s four walls. But risks originating in personal digital lives present a challenge that enterprise security teams cannot solve, even if they wanted to.
Popular apps to support people’s psychological and spiritual well-being can harm them by sharing their personal and sensitive data with third parties, among other privacy offenses.
In this time of unprecedented cyberwar, organizations must protect the personal digital lives of their executives in order to reduce the company’s risk of direct or collateral damage.
One cryptography expert said that ‘serious flaws’ in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are ’embarrassingly bad.’
The attacks, which lead to 2FA defeat and account takeover, have accelerated by several hundred percent in one year, leading to thousands of drained bank accounts.
Researchers from Proofpoint have spotted a new Middle East-targeted phishing campaign that delivers a novel malware dubbed NimbleMamba.
The now-patched flaw that led to the ForcedEntry exploit of iPhones was exploited by both NSO Group and a different, newly detailed surveillance vendor.
The ‘smishing’ group lives up to its name, expanding globally and adding image exfiltration to the Wroba RAT it uses to infect mobile victims.
