The U.S. government has high confidence that hackers tied to the Ministry of State Security, or MSS, carried out the unusually indiscriminate hack of Microsoft Exchange Server software that emerged in March, senior officials said.
In addition, four Chinese nationals were indicted over a range of separate hacking intrusions dating back a decade that allegedly stole corporate and research secrets from firms and universities around the world.
Pegasus spyware leak shows how iPhones are vulnerable to hackers - Vox
If you were paying attention to the news over the weekend, you might have heard something about "Pegasus.
Does the average person really have to worry about the government of Azerbaijan breaking into their phone and listening to their conversations or surveilling them through their phone cameras? Probably not.
Biden Puts a $10M Bounty on Foreign Hackers | WIRED
A more aggressive form of internet censorship has played out this week in Cuba, as authorities disrupted access to major social media and messaging platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp in the face of ongoing civil unrest.
Don't forget to set aside a little time this weekend to make sure your web searches are private and secure .
How Quickly Hackers Access, Use Your Personal Data Following A Data Breach
SALT LAKE CITY — You might already know that when personal information gets compromised in a data breach, it often ends up on the dark web where hackers can access it and use it. But do you know how quickly the cyber criminals can reach your data once it hits the dark web?
It could happen within an hour, a cybersecurity researcher told the KSL Investigators, in hopes of sharing this knowledge so we can better protect ourselves.
Local Veteran shares how hackers stole over $10,000 in Bitcoin
WAUSAU, Wis. (NBC 26) -- A local veteran claims to have been robbed of thousands of dollars from his bank account, and over $10,000 dollars in Bitcoins. Karl Klimes says it happened when his computer was hacked, in just a matter of hours.
The software Klimes ultimately found on his computer is known as a keylogger program, software that records your most vulnerable information every step of the way.
Hackers Got Past Windows Hello by Tricking a Webcam | WIRED
That's because you can't trust any old webcam to offer robust protections in how it collects and transmits data. Windows Hello facial recognition works only with webcams that have an infrared sensor in addition to the regular RGB sensor. But the system, it turns out, doesn't even look at RGB data.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Iranian Hackers Target US Military, Defense Companies | Voice of America - English
Iran appears to be intensifying its effort to exploit U.S. and Western targets in cyberspace, running a campaign aimed at manipulating American military personnel and defense companies on social media.
Tehran's latest campaign, orchestrated on Facebook by a group known as Tortoiseshell, used a series of sophisticated, fake online personas to make contact with U.S. servicemembers and employees of major defense companies in order to infect their computers with malware and extract information.
Hackers Trick Windows Hello With a Single Infrared Image | PCMag
Windows Hello encompasses three authentication methods: a user-generated PIN, a fingerprint scanner, and a facial-recognition tool. CyberArk researchers specifically targeted its facial-recognition capabilities, but issues have also been discovered in other aspects of the system.
Happening on Twitter
Today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt. SenSchumer (from New York, NY) Sun Jul 18 17:49:58 +0000 2021
With the admission that the Biden admin is colluding with Facebook to censor people the "But muh private business" argument is over Timcast (from Washington, DC) Sun Jul 18 17:25:23 +0000 2021
Biden admin demonizes conservatives over and over then is shocked that conservatives don't trust them on health and medical advice Timcast (from Washington, DC) Mon Jul 19 02:31:06 +0000 2021
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