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Two days ago, the government of India announced, in a seemingly miraculous turn of events, that it would publicly release the source code for its coronavirus contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, which has already had close to 120 million downloads. The app, which uses Bluetooth to locate infected phone users, was rolled out soon after the COVID-19 outbreak […] More
techrepublic cheat sheet GitHub has issued a security alert on Thursday warning about a new malware strain that’s been spreading on its site via boobytrapped Java projects. The malware, which GitHub’s security team has named Octopus Scanner, has been found in projects managed using the Apache NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment), a tool used to […] More
Toll Group has said it was making “good progress” with the restoration of its key online systems, following the ransomware attack it suffered after a January infection. In an update posted on Friday, the company said MyToll customers could now access most features and its Track and Trace function is available for a number of services, […] More
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is taking Clearview AI to court, claiming the company’s facial surveillance activities violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and “represent an unprecedented threat to our security and safety”. The legal action, brought on by lawyers at the ACLU of Illinois and the law firm Edelson PC, is […] More
Google announced today plans to enable its new anti-notification spam system in Chrome over the summer, with the release of Chrome 84, on July 12, 2020. Known internally as the “quieter notification permission UI,” this Chrome component works by blocking sites from showing notification requests, which are hidden under an icon in the Chrome URL […] More
Image: Ryo Yoshitake, NTT Ltd. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), the 64th biggest company in the world, according to the Fortune 500 list, has disclosed today a security breach. NTT says hackers gained access to its internal network and stole information on 621 customers from its communications subsidiary, NTT Communications, the largest telecommunications company in […] More
Cisco has disclosed today a security breach that impacted a small part of its backend infrastructure. In a security alert published today, Cisco said that hackers used a vulnerability in the SaltStack software package, which Cisco bundles with some products, to gain access to six servers: us-1.virl.info us-2.virl.info us-3.virl.info us-4.virl.info vsm-us-1.virl.info vsm-us-2.virl.info The six servers […] More
Image: Pankaj Patel, NSA, ZDNet The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published today a security alert warning of a new wave of cyberattacks against email servers, attacks conducted by one of Russia’s most advanced cyber-espionage units. The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a […] More
