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Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam

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“Last month, the Department of Justice charged a Lithuanian man for fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering after documents revealed he scammed two major tech companies for over $100 million by masquerading as a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer. A Fortune report this week identified those two affected companies as Facebook and Google.”

Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15468828/facebook-google-phishing-scam-rimasauskas

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Security researchers announce “first practical” SHA-1 collision attack

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“The SHA-1 hash algorithm is still in use for verifying the authenticity of digital content, despite the march of Moore’s Law ramping up compute power available to hackers in the wild — and despite other, more robust alternatives having existed for years.  Systems that could be compromised via the technique according to the researchers include document signature, HTTPS certificates, version control (git), backup systems, software updates, ISO checksums and more.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/security-researchers-announce-first-practical-sha-1-collision-attack/

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Major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers’ websites

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“Cloudflare revealed a serious bug in its software today that caused sensitive data like passwords, cookies, authentication tokens to spill in plaintext from its customers’ websites. The announcement is a major blow for the content delivery network, which offers enhanced security and performance for more than 5 million websites.  This could have allowed anyone who noticed the error to collect a variety of very personal information that is typically encrypted or obscured.  The leak may have been active as early as Sept. 22, 2016, almost five months before a security researcher at Google’s Project Zero discovered it and reported it to Cloudflare.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/major-cloudflare-bug-leaked-sensitive-data-from-customers-websites/

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Border guards force US citizen to unlock his work phone

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“Should this have happened? Bikkannavar is, after all, a natural-born US citizen. He’s also enrolled in the CBP’s Global Entry program, which allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the US.”

Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/14/border-guards-force-us-citizen-to-unlock-his-nasa-owned-work-phone/

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How To Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You

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“The single most foolproof way to keep an internet-connected TV from sending data to far-flung ad tech servers around the globe? Disconnect it from the internet. And honestly, you should be doing that anyway. That doesn’t mean you have to live a Netflix-free life. But you should very much opt for a streaming box or dongle for your televised internet interests. If you insist on keeping your smart TV hooked up to the big bad internet regardless, here’s a quick primer on how to limit what it tracks by brand.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/smart-tv-spying-vizio-settlement/

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Real life CSI: Google’s new AI system unscrambles pixelated faces

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“Google’s neural networks have achieved the dream of CSI viewers everywhere: the company has revealed a new AI system capable of ‘enhancing’ an eight-pixel square image, increasing the resolution 16-fold and effectively restoring lost data.  The neural network could be used to increase the resolution of blurred or pixelated faces, in a way previously thought impossible; a similar system was demonstrated for enhancing images of bedrooms, again creating a 32×32 pixel image from an 8×8 one.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/google-ai-system-pixelated-faces-csi

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New Attorney General opposes encryption, while GOP uses it to avoid leaks

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Trump’s attorney general Jeff Sessions has said the new administration will seek to ‘overcome encryption’ in remarks that have been interpreted as a veiled reference to backdoors.

At the same time, Trump administration members and other Republicans are using the encrypted, self-destructing messaging app Confide to keep conversations private in the wake of hacks and leaks.

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Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat, And Casinos Have No Fix

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“The economic realities of the gaming industry seem to guarantee that the St. Petersburg organization will continue to flourish. The machines have no easy technical fix. At the same time, most casinos can’t afford to invest in the newest slot machines, whose PRNGs use encryption to protect mathematical secrets; as long as older, compromised machines are still popular with customers, the smart financial move for casinos is to keep using them and accept the occasional loss to scammers.  So the onus will be on casino security personnel to keep an eye peeled for the scam’s small tells. A finger that lingers too long above a spin button may be a guard’s only clue that hackers in St. Petersburg are about to make another score.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge

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“A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled on Friday that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe did not qualify as a seizure.”

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-usa-warrant-idUSKBN15J0ON

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DHS: Georgia voter registration breach attempt was legitimate work, not a hack

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“The Department of Homeland Security told Georgia’s Office of Secretary of State that the IP address associated with an attempted breach of the state agency’s firewall was tracked to an office in U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a revelation that has DHS ‘deeply concerned.'”

Read more: https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-georgia-incident-was-legitimate-work-not-a-hack/

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