More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group.
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Ex CIA Prime Suspect for Vault 7 Leak
A former CIA employee has been named as the prime suspect behind last year’s leak of thousands of top-secret documents on the agency’s hacking practices.Continue Reading…
Facebook Personality Quiz Exposed 3 Million Users
Facebook data on more than 3 million people who took a personality quiz was published on a poorly protected website where it could have been accessed by unauthorized parties, according to New Scientist. In a report exposing the potential leak, New Scientist says that the data contained Facebook users’ answers to a personality trait test. While it didn’t include users’ names, in many cases it contained their age, gender, and relationship status. For 150,000 people, it even contained their status updates.Continue Reading…
The Smart Home That Spied On Its Owner
For two months in early 2018, technology journalist Kashmir Hill let innocent household items spy on her. She had turned her one-bedroom apartment into a “smart home” and was measuring how much data was being collected by the firms that made the devices.Continue Reading…