FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000
Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week’s top security news.
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3 reasons you can’t fight facial recognition
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:51:00 -0800
The biometric backlash is but a brief blip. Resistance is futile. You WILL be identified. But is that good or bad?
Read MoreA Windows 10 Vulnerability Was Used to Rickroll the NSA and Github
Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:30:00 +0000
A researcher demonstrated the attack less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever.
Read MoreKadena launches a hybrid platform to connect public, private blockchains
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:10:00 -0800
Brooklyn-based spinoff Kadena has launched a hybrid blockchain that can scale horizontally, enabling multiple electronic ledgers to talk to each other via smart contracts – and letting users transfer cryptocurrency between the chains.
Hybrid blockchains combine permissioned chains for businesses to transact in the background while connecting to a public blockchain (via an API) for consumers and others to make money transfers or access information about products moving across supply chains.
“Their hybrid blockchain model looks interesting, mainly because it enables interoperability via smart contracts that run on public chains and talk to/with private chains,” said Avivah Litan, a vice president of research at Gartner. “That way, enterprises can keep their private data and transactions limited to the private chain but benefit from the liquidity and cross-chain access available by leveraging smart contracts running on the public chain.”
Worried about an NSA ChainOfFools/CurveBall attack? There are lots of moving parts. Test your system.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:42:00 -0800
If you want to install the January Patch Tuesday patches, by all means, go right ahead. That said, I continue to recommend that you hold off installing the January Microsoft patches until we get a clearer reading on potential bugs.
The pro-patch-now argument generally goes something like this: Everybody is recommending that you install the patches to protect against the Crypto bug — almost all of the major security folks, the researchers, the big online sites, your local news station, your congresscritter, your neighbor’s nine-year-old, even the bleeping NSA. It’s a little patch. Why not just install it and be done with it?
This Week in Security News: The First Patch Tuesday Update of 2020 and Pwn2Own Vancouver Announced
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:35:11 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a major crypto-spoofing bug impacting Windows 10 that has been fixed as part of Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update. Also, read about the launch of…
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Read MoreFeds may already have found a way to hack into Apple iPhones
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:05:00 -0800
After Apple turned down a request by U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week to unlock two iPhones used by a terrorist suspect in a recent deadly shooting, the FBI appears to already have the tools needed to access the smartphones.
Apple turned down a request from U.S. Attorney General William Barr saying it would not help unlock two iPhones used by the shooter, 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. He is believed to have acted alone when he shot and killed three service members and wounded several others at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. last month.
Kadena launches Chainweb, a hybrid platform to connect public, private blockchains
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:10:00 -0800
Brooklyn-based startup Kadena has launched a hybrid blockchain that can scale horizontally, enabling multiple electronic ledgers to talk to each other via smart contracts – and letting users transfer cryptocurrency between the chains.
Hybrid blockchains combine permissioned chains for businesses to transact in the background while connecting to a public blockchain (via an API) for consumers and others to make money transfers or access information about products moving across supply chains.
“Their hybrid blockchain model looks interesting, mainly because it enables interoperability via smart contracts that run on public chains and talk to/with private chains,” said Avivah Litan, a vice president of research at Gartner. “That way, enterprises can keep their private data and transactions limited to the private chain but benefit from the liquidity and cross-chain access available by leveraging smart contracts running on the public chain.”