Facebook sues NSO
WhatsApp hack
Social networking site Facebook sued Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group, alleging it hacked users of its messaging platform WhatsApp earlier this year.
Microsoft pushes secure core PCs
Available from Dell, Dynabook, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Surface
Microsoft announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory – secured-core PCs.
Smart homes need not be insecure
They can be disconnected from the net
A publicly-funded group of designers, artists and privacy experts from Amsterdam have designed an intelligent home system prototype to "prove it's technically possible to build a privacy respecting smart home while maintaining convenience".
Medical apps too wide open
Sharing too much data
A study in the British Medical Journal that looked at 24 of the 100s of medical apps available on Google Play found that 79 percent pass all sorts of user info -- including sensitive medical info like your reported symptoms are and which medications you are taking in some cases -- on to third and fourth parties
Another security bug found in iOS
You probably were not expecting this
Fruity cargo cult Apple is warning users of a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS involving third-party keyboards.
UK business clueless about wi-fi vulnerabilities
Most have suffered a wi-fi breach
A survey of 1,075 UK workers in full or part-time employment, carried out by technology services provider Probrand.co.uk has revealed that the majority (72 percent) of companies who suffered a data breach in the last year found that the network infiltration came from an unsecured wireless device, such as a printer, scanner, mobile phone or laptop connected to their Wi-Fi network.
Another security bug found in Intel chips
Forces of darkness nicked my keystrokes
Insecurity experts have found a flaw in Intel's Data-Direct I/O [DDIO]which enables hackers to capture keystrokes.
ZAO goes viral despite security concerns
Become famous
A new Chinese app that lets users swap their faces with celebrities, sports stars or anyone else in a video clip has gone viral despite warnings from the security industry over privacy issues.
Apple's security worse than observers thought
This decade long attack should have been spotted
A basic attack, full of errors, was around for years Apple and the entire security industry are looking rather stupid this week after it turns out the hack on iPhones was much worse than people thought.
Apple patches unpatching security update
Jailbreak time is over
Apple has released today an iOS security update to patch a bug the company's software geniuses un-patched allowing hackers to craft new jailbreaks for current iOS versions.