A Major Privacy Win, a Vault 7 Indictment, and More Security News This Week
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:30:35 +0000
A good week for privacy, an alleged leaker indicted, and more security news this week.
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beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB
Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:30:44 +0000
During the event of Hack In the Box, we launched an ARM reverse engineering and exploitation challenge and gave the attendees the change to win great prizes. The challenge was divided into two parts, a file – can be downloaded from here: https://www.beyondsecurity.com/bevxcon/bevx-challenge-10 – that you had to download and reverse engineer and server that … Continue reading beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB
Read MoreSupreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:30:13 +0000
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, but experts say it may have limited bearing on the selling of real-time customer location data by the wireless carriers to third-party companies.
Read MoreSupreme Court: Your digital location is protected by the Constitution
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:15:00 -0700
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that access to historical cell-site records of a person’s location based on their mobile phone will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching a person’s historical location records.
This is the first time the high court has ruled on whether a phone subscriber has a legitimate expectation of privacy regarding a telephone company’s records of their cellphone location data, according to Aloke Chakravarty, a partner in the Denver-based law firm of Snell & Wilmer.
“This is a landmark case for privacy, and how the court will deal with emerging technologies going forward,” Chakravarty said via email. “It creates a new lens through which to view a government’s ability to obtain third-party records where a criminal defendant neither possesses the records, doesn’t have a property interest in them, may not even know they exist, and he cannot personally even access them.”
Get the most from your XG Firewall
Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:14:21 +0000
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Read MoreEdge Computing Retail Ecosystems – More Skin in the Game
Credit to Author: Kim Povlsen| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000
Data in retail was probably never about beer and nappies – the perhaps apocryphal tale about the superstore chain which spotted a late-night pattern in men buying nappies and treating… Read more »
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Read MoreModern ways to save time when ordering medium voltage equipment
Credit to Author: Mickael Sagnes| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:37:00 +0000
Are you wasting time searching through hundreds of catalog pages for product reference numbers? Are you bored by spending your time calling a sales representative, explaining your needs and asking… Read more »
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Read MoreBill Could Give Californians Unprecedented Control Over Data
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:08:07 +0000
Lawmakers in California have introduced a sweeping privacy bill that could reign in the power of their Silicon Valley neighbors.
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