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Citizen Lab has revealed that WeChat, the popular messaging app operated by Tencent, subjects the same pervasive content surveillance to accounts beyond China that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts. The Canadian research group said that like any other internet platform operating in China, WeChat is expected to follow rules and […] More
Singapore has rolled out a new digital check-in system to boost its contact tracing efforts and stem the spread of COVID-19, making it mandatory at certain locations across the island. The move comes weeks after the launch of a contact tracing app that has since garnered more than 1.4 million downloads, but that is well […] More
Image: Microsoft Microsoft rolled out this week a new feature to Office 365 customers to help their IT staff detect and stop “Reply-All email storms.” The term refers to situations when employees use the Reply-All option in mass-mailed emails, such as company-wide notifications. If the number of recipients in the email chain is large, and […] More
Image: ZDNet A hacker group going by the name of ShinyHunters claims to have breached ten companies and is currently selling their respective user databases on a dark web marketplace for illegal products. The hackers are the same group who breached last week Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest online store. Hackers initially leaked 15 million user records […] More
Black Hat and DEF CON, the two biggest cyber-security conferences of the year, have canceled their in-person events today and announced plans to go with a virtual conference format in light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The two conferences were initially scheduled to take place in Las Vegas back to back in the first two […] More
The US Marshals Service (USMS) has suffered a security lapse last year and is currently notifying inmates that some of their personal details might have been exposed online. According to breach notification letters sent this month, the USMS said the incident came to light on December 30, 2019, when the USMS Information Technology Division (1TD) […] More
Web hosting provider Digital Ocean is currently in the process of notifying some customers about a security lapse that exposed some of their account details. According to an email the company is currently sending out, the security leak occurred due to an internal Digital Ocean document that was mistakenly left accessible online. Digital Ocean says […] More
Open Source Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect the US electricity grid from cyber attacks by blocking power-equipment imports from “foreign adversaries.” Presumably, that includes Russia, Iran, and — most important of all — China. There’s only one problem with that: The vast majority of high-end electrical equipment is built outside […] More
