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HorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!
Credit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000
It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…
Read MoreIowa Caucus chaos likely to set back mobile voting
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:51:00 -0800
A coding flaw and lack of sufficient testing of an application to record votes in Monday’s Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus will likely hurt the advancement and uptake of online voting.
While there have been hundreds of tests of mobile and online voting platforms in recent years – mostly in small municipal or corporate shareholder and university student elections – online voting technology has yet to be tested for widespread use by the general public in a national election.
“This is one of the cases where we narrowly dodged a bullet,” said Jeremy Epstein, vice chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC). “The Iowa Democratic Party had planned to allow voters to vote in the caucus using their phones; if this sort of meltdown had happened with actual votes, it would have been an actual disaster. In this case, it’s just delayed results and egg on the face of the people who built and purchased the technology.”
The Iowa Caucus Tech Meltdown Is a Warning
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:00:57 +0000
The Iowa results will come in eventually, thanks to a paper trail. But it underscores just how much can go wrong when you lean on unnecessary, untested tech.
Read MoreThis Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete
Credit to Author: Molly Schwartz, Wired UK | Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000
Your digital self is fragmented and owned by third parties. Kaliya Young has a plan to change that—and make tech fairer for all.
Read MoreMysterious New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:56:34 +0000
EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.
Read MoreThe problem with mobile and app voting
It's the day after the 2020 Iowa caucuses, and the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to announce the winner. The app that precinct leaders were supposed to use to report final tallies recorded inconsistent results. Party leaders blamed a "coding issue" within the app, not a hack or attack. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian joins Juliet to discuss the problem with mobile voting and how this snafu may affect the reputation of app voting in the future.
How to protect your TikTok account
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:55:02 +0000
We reveal the best settings for protecting your profile from hackers, haters, and spammers.
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