Day: May 20, 2020

NSO Group Impersonated Facebook To Help Clients Hack Targets

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Security Flaws Found In NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Rogue ADT Tech Spied On Hundreds Of Customers Via CCTV

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Signal To Move Away From Using Phone Numbers As User IDs

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Houseparty denied it had been hacked…. while miscreants were abusing its dot-com’s domain-name infrastructure

Subdomain takeover possible, says infosec bod At the end of March, video chat app Houseparty, owned by Epic Games, responded to unsubstantiated reports that user accounts had been hacked – by offering a $1m bounty to anyone able to prove the rumors were part of a coordinated campaign to smear the company.… …read more Source::…


Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops by 6% In First Adjustment After Halving

The Bitcoin network just fine-tuned a key parameter to coax back miners who quit after last week’s halving hammered their profits. From a report: More than 20 exahashes per second (EH/s) of computing power — the equivalent of around 1.5 million older-generation mining machines — has been switched off from Bitcoin since the network’s halving….


Coronavirus-Themed Phishing Fears Largely Overblown, Researchers Say

As COVID-19-themed spam rises, phishing-not so much. An analysis of newly registered domains finds that only 2.4% are actually phishing sites aiming to steal credentials. …read more Source:: DarkReading


We really doing this again? Rumour has it that Apple is nearly finished developing augmented-reality glasses

iGiant would have to show it has learned from Google’s failures Comment The word on the street is that Apple is developing new augmented reality glass, with the work at an advanced stage. Prototypes, we’re told, have been made, and Cupertino is aiming for a 2021/2022 release. There’s also a name: Apple Glass.… …read more…


Verizon DBIR: Web App Attacks and Security Errors Surge

Threatpost talks to Verizon DBIR co-author Gabriel Bassett about the top takeaways from this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Nintendo Switch Lite is in stock at GameStop, Target and Best Buy: Latest inventory update – CNET

Just updated: Here’s where you can find the $200 portable version of Nintendo’s hot gaming console. …read more Source:: CNet