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2017-05-28 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 20)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest for this week.

  • Hollywood studios ‘need to prioritise content security’
  • Google collected NHS records of 1.6M patients on “inappropriate legal basis”
  • It’s 2017 – and your Mac, iPad, iPhone can all be pwned by an e-book
  • DocuSign Data Breach Led to Targeted Email Malware Campaign
  • Gotcha, Tatcha! Thieves hide in servers to hoover up victims’ bank card numbers mid-order
  • Zomato Hacked; Hacker Puts Up 17 Million Users’ Emails and Passwords On Sale
  • Bell Canada hacked: 2m account details swiped by mystery miscreants
  • Google (not the GDS) is the new enemy in airline distribution
  • Airplane cockpit security codes leak onto the Internet

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, InfoSec, Privacy, Software Security

2017-05-21 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 16)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest for this week.

  • Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them
  • Meet PINLogger, the drive-by exploit that steals smartphone PINs |
  • The Importance of VPNs While Using Wi-Fi on Airplanes
  • ‘We should have done better’ – the feeble words of a CEO caught using real hospital IT in infosec product demos
  • Health execs rank employee awareness as greatest cybersecurity concern
  • Cyber attacks: British firms storing customer data more prone to breaches
  • New leak shows how a major hacking group cracked Windows and international banks
  • Holiday Inn hotels hit by card payment system hack
  • Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, InfoSec, IOT, Privacy

2017-04-24 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 14)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Schneider Electric still shipping passwords in firmware
  • Wonga tells 270,000 customers no need to change passwords after data breach
  • Samsung’s Android Replacement Is a Hacker’s Dream
  • Mac malware spikes 744 percent, still not a big deal
  • An Unprecedented Heist Hijacked a Brazilian Bank’s Entire Online Operation
  • Data breach as details about MPs’ staff published in error
  • AI Privacy Assistants Could Stop You From Exposing Sensitive Info
  • A new digital age is upon us – it’s called Internet of Things
  • Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee slams UK and US net plans

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, InfoSec, Online surveillance, Privacy

2017-01-11 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 1)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Cloudflare hit by leap second “software panic” snafu on New Year’s Day
  • Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017
  • A Few States Now Actually Help You Figure Out If You’ve Been Hacked
  • Children in England sign over digital rights ‘regularly and unknowingly’
  • Analysis: 2016 Health Data Breaches, and What’s Ahead
  • THE REAL NAME FALLACY
  • Designer launches fabric to bamboozle facial recognition
  • LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017
  • The weigh forward: MasterCard could estimate passengers’ weight for airlines based on what they buy

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, InfoSec, Privacy

2017-01-05 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy and the 12 recaps of 2016 (day 11)

In a day and age that everything has a digital side to it, intelligence agencies want a piece of that pie too. However, more and more of us are, because it is done for us, using encrypted devices and communication making the job of law enforcement and intelligence agencies more difficult or so they claim.
And then there is world wide terrorism too which politicians are gladly using to reduce privacy and data protection in exchange for security and safety, at least that is what they constantly are promising us yet at the same time scaring society in to agreement.
With all that going on it is no surprise that online surveillance is on the rise, either because we finally found out about it as in the Snowden case or by the virtue of new laws like the UK’s investigatory powers act or snoopers charter.
Today in the final instalment of this series that looks back at 2016, I will be focusing on surveillance from the NSA getting hacked itself, to France and the UK’s attempt at surveillance laws and databases, intelligence agencies who kept too much data and EU politicians wanting a piece of the surveillance pie as well.

In chronological order:

  • EU votes on sharing air passenger data in wake of Paris, Brussels attacks
  • China’s proposed cybersecurity laws spark concerns among businesses
  • The NSA Hack — What, When, Where, How, Who & Why?
  • EU ministers look to tighten up privacy – JUST KIDDING – surveillance laws
  • Una Mullally: Edward Snowden’s warnings fall on deaf ears
  • UK security agencies unlawfully collected data for 17 years, court rules
  • France Creates Big Brother Data File Raising Privacy Concerns
  • Sharing’s caring? Not when you spread data across gov willy-nilly
  • Investigatory Powers law setback: Blanket data slurp is illegal—top EU court

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, InfoSec, Online surveillance, Privacy

2017-01-04 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2016 (week 52)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Ransomware Attack Takes Over Android TV
  • New variant of KillDisk wiper threatens industrial control networks with ransomware
  • Russian malware detected in US electricity utility – report
  • Star Wars card firm Topps hit by ‘unforgiveable’ hack
  • Uber, Apple Maps and location tracking: what’s really going on?
  • Why the largest insurance companies are pouring into Silicon Valley
  • FAA Takes Action to Correct Boeing 787 Technical Glitch
  • Are you wearing your boarding pass?
  • Flight booking systems lack basic privacy safeguards, researchers say

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, InfoSec, Privacy

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