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Law Enforcement Websites Hit by Blueleaks May Have Been Easy to Hack

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Dissent

Micah Lee reports: Whoever broke into 251 law enforcement websites and obtained the blueleaks trove of documents appears to have reused decades-old software for opening “backdoors” in web servers. The use of the widely available backdoors provides evidence that the hacktivist who compromised the sensitive sites, including fusion centers linked to federal agencies, didn’t need to use sophisticated…

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Please stop hard-wiring AWS credentials in your code. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Dissent

Thomas Claburn reports: Albion College has a plan for students to return safely to campus this fall amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. It involves being tracked by an app that, at least until a few days ago, appears to have been insecure. The Michigan institution announced its plan on July 28, which calls for testing coordinated by…

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Report: “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking:” GitHub Leaks of Protected Health Information

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Dissent

The message request showed up in my Twitter notifications: Hi There! 🙂 I see you have some experience in getting the right amount of attention for medicaid related data leaks. I have found admin credentials to some super sensitive medical billing processing system and get nothing but silence on all available contact channels and no…

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Aarogya Setu vulnerable? Drama over data firm’s contention

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

Binayak Dasgupta reports: A cyber security firm said on Wednesday that it stumbled upon large parts of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s code and back-end components that could jeopardise the privacy of 150 million users after a government website appeared to have inadvertently uploaded log-in credentials used by the developers, triggering a war of words…

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For six months, security researchers have secretly distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports on a rare bit of good news on the malware front, although the threat actors appear to have gotten the upper hand again: In the cyber-security industry, there’s a very dangerous moral line when it comes to exploiting bugs in malware, a line many security companies won’t cross, fearing they might end…

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UK: Plymouth Passport Office’s pitiful password privacy

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Dissent

A blog post by Graham Cluley really resonated here this week.  It begins: The Plymouth Herald reports on what appears to be an easy-to-avoid gaffe. An eagle-eyed passer-by spotted a password on clear display at Her Majesty’s Passport Office in Ebrington Street, scrawled on a flipchart leaning against an upper window. The paper contacted the UK Home Office,…

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