COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage. Using the COVIDGuardian tool, cybersecurity experts assessed 40 Covid-19 contact tracing apps that have been employed worldwide for potential privacy and security threats. Their findings include that: 72.5 per cent…
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Ryuk ransomware now self-spreads to other Windows LAN devices
While French news outlets have been reporting on ransomware attacks there, they have been relatively quiet on the type of ransomware or details of attacks, other than an occasional mention of Ryuk. Now Sergiu Gatlan reports: A new Ryuk ransomware variant with worm-like capabilities that allow it to spread to other devices on victims’ local…
DRM Screws People Yet Again: Book DRM Data Breach Exposes Reporters’ Emails And Passwords
Mike Masnick writes: I have a few different services that report to me if my email is found in various data breaches, and recently I was notified that multiple email addresses of mine showed up in a leak of the service NetGalley. NetGalley, if you don’t know, is a DRM service for books, that is…
‘Millions of people’s data is at risk’ — Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
Vincent Manancourt reports: Your order history. Your credit card information. Even your intimate health data. Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company’s efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company’s security shortfalls…
“Without Undue Delay,” Friday edition
The Jacobson Memorial Hospital & Care Center had a breach last year that they are first disclosing this week. Here’s the chronology, based on a statement from their external counsel: July 28, 2020 — One employee’s email account is compromised and used to send out spam. August 5, 2020 — Hospital manages to kick bad…
AU: ‘Security risks’: Ministers’ private email accounts in historical data breach
Matt Denien reports: A private email account used by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, and potentially the password unlocking a linked social media platform, was exposed in a 2016 data breach that affected more than 150 million other LinkedIn users across the globe. An account used by Transport Minister Mark Bailey, which was subject to a…