A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000
An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Russia Doesn’t Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 01:41:28 +0000
The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy’s loose seams, and pull.
Read MoreHow Trump Hollowed Out US National Security
Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:58:01 +0000
Acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell is just the latest in a cascade of temporary or vacant personnel in critical government positions.
Read MoreApple joins industry effort to eliminate passwords
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, the company has joined the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an authentication standards group dedicated to replacing passwords with another, faster and more secure method for logging into online services and apps.
Apple is among the last tech bigwigs to join FIDO, whose members now include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, RSA, Samsung, Qualcomm and VMware. The group also boasts more than a dozen financial service firms such as American Express, ING, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa and Wells Fargo.
“Apple is not usually up front in joining new organizations and often waits to see if they gain enough traction before joining in. This is fairly atypical for them,” said Jack Gold, president and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “Apple is often trying to present [its] own proposed industry standards for wide adoption, but is generally not an early adopter of true multi-vendor industry standards.
The US Blames Russia’s GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:10:00 +0000
By calling out Russia for digital assaults on its neighboring country, the US hopes to head off similar efforts at home.
Read MoreBluetooth-Related Flaws Threaten Dozens of Medical Devices
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000
Hundreds of smart devices—including pacemakers—are exposed thanks to a series of vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol.
Read MoreThe mess behind Microsoft’s yanked UEFI patch KB 4524244
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:23:00 -0800
Remember the warning about watching how sausage is made? This is an electronic sausage-making story with lots of dirty little bits.
First, the chronology. On February’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a bizarre standalone security patch, KB 4524244, which was then called “Security update for Windows 10, version 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, and 1903: Feb. 11, 2020.” The name has changed, but bear with me.
The original problems with KB 4524244
That patch had all sorts of weird hallmarks as I discussed at the time:
YouTube Gaming’s Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated by Scams and Cheats
Credit to Author: Cecilia D’Anastasio| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:53:15 +0000
YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information.
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