Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability.
Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_15_2016.mp3
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A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
Despite being a mostly run-of-the-mill ransomware strain, Babuk Locker’s encryption mechanisms and abuse of Windows Restart Manager sets it apart.
The “People Nearby” feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user’s precise location, a researcher said.
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