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A Magecart group has expanded its operations by compromising not only an Olympic ticket reseller but also a number of other websites referencing a single malicious domain hosting the underlying skimmer code. Magecart is a term used to describe the use of skimmer code to compromise e-commerce payment platforms. Legitimate websites seemingly fine to trust […] More
Image: Nortek Security & Control, LLC Hackers are actively searching the internet and hijacking smart door/building access control systems, which they are using to launch DDoS attacks, according to firewall company SonicWall. The attacks are targeting Linear eMerge E3, a product of Nortek Security & Control (NSC). Linear eMerge E3 devices [1, 2, 3] fall […] More
FBI arrests former 10-year-old Raytheon electric engineer for taking classified info about US missile defense systems to China and then lying about it. More
I’ve been a Google Authenticator user since the dawn of two-factor authentication (2FA) apps. Released in 2010, it’s one of those apps that I use all the time for authenticating logins into various websites and services. Using it has become second nature. But it has downsides. Must read: The ultimate MacBook USB-C accessory just got […] More
Image: ZDNet There is now a special page in the Firefox browser where users can see what telemetry data Mozilla is collecting from their browser. Accessible by typing about:telemetry in the browser’s URL address bar, this new section is a recent addition to Firefox. The page shows deeply technical information about browser settings, installed add-ons, […] More
Computer Scientist Rick Ayers working on a mobile phone data extraction at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on January 30, 2020. Photo credit: Rich Press/NIST. Damaged mobile phones are still filled with plenty of useful data, according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of […] More
A ransomware infection has brought down TVEyes, a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news broadcasts, broadly used by newsrooms and PR agencies across the globe. TVEyes CEO David Ives told ZDNet the ransomware attack took place after midnight on Thursday, January 30. The ransomware hit core server & engineering […] More
San Francisco skyline with Salesforce tower. Photo: Tom Foremski Trade wars and the rise of Chinese innovation are the top concerns of tech companies, according to a survey of 100 chief financial officers of US tech companies from accounting firm BDO. A recession is likely within two years said 70% of CFOs, but they are […] More
