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  1. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 13:01:03 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    https://nu.federati.net/url/178899

    Scary account. It sounds like they may have used cellular network employees to obtain info necessary to hijack SIM and telephone numbers, which were then used to take over e-mail accounts and every other account the victims had. #security #2FA

    Seen on #Libertree
    Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 13:01:03 UTC from nu.federati.net permalink
  2. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 22:28:42 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @thotcon@twitter.com: ATTN Hackers: Tickets for THOTCON 0xA go on sale 10/1. Don’t delay. Tell your friends. https://tickets.thotcon.org #InfoSec #security #hacking #chicago

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thotcon/status/1043894927736926208

    Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 22:28:42 UTC from mamot.fr permalink
  3. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Sep-2018 13:05:44 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @Kirst3nF@twitter.com: Here's @doctorow@twitter.com on the latest 5 Eyes Statement of Principles on Access to "Evidence" and #Encryption: Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again
    https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/illegal-math.html
    #surveillance #security #privacy #backdoors

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Kirst3nF/status/1037249753522814979

    Wednesday, 05-Sep-2018 13:05:44 UTC from mamot.fr permalink
  4. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 14:43:17 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @jmlakar@twitter.com: The Prisoners Dilemma of Defect Disclosure: https://www.mlakartechtalk.com/prisoners-dilemma-defect-disclosure/
    This is my analysis of the great article written by @doctorow@twitter.com from @EFF@twitter.com #security #infosec #infosecurity

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jmlakar/status/1032268333855461377

    Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 14:43:17 UTC from mamot.fr permalink
  5. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 19:51:51 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "Most worryingly, Google appears to be scooping up information about people who use incognito mode in their browsers – which most people think makes their activities invisible from Google." #privacy #security #surveillance

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90222071/study-says-google-is-collecting-more-data-about-you-than-you-realize

    Graphic CC BY-SA Sean O'Brien

    Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 19:51:51 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  6. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 18:34:54 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "The Forum included a live [demo of] cyber exploitations that highlight common cyber risks — many of which can be easily defended against using common sense cyber hygiene" Demos use code at https://frama.link/cyber-demo & PiRogue from Pirahnalysis https://frama.link/yale-cyber-2018 #privacy #security

    Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 18:34:54 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  7. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 17:50:51 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "Software like pcAnywhere is used by system administrators to access and control systems from a remote location to conduct maintenance or upgrade or alter software. But election-management systems and voting machines are supposed to be air-gapped for security reasons - that is, disconnected from the internet and from any other systems that are connected to the internet." #privacy #security

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

    Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 17:50:51 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  8. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 01-Jun-2018 14:58:34 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "The concern is that a rogue submodule can trick the Git into running code it shouldn’t outside the context of the repository. 'This allowed an adversary to exfiltrate data, pull down a web shell, plant a cryptominer or just totally own the machine...'" #security

    https://threatpost.com/bug-in-git-opens-developer-systems-up-to-attack/132395/

    Friday, 01-Jun-2018 14:58:34 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  9. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 01-Jun-2018 14:43:04 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "For more than a year, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome may have leaked users’ Facebook usernames, profile pictures, and likes if the users’ browsers visited malicious websites that employed a cutting-edge hack" #privacy #security

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/chrome-and-firefox-leaks-let-sites-steal-visitors-facebook-names-profile-pics/

    Friday, 01-Jun-2018 14:43:04 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  10. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 16:47:48 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab
    • yaelwrites

    great piece by @yaelwrites including Jack Balkin's concept of information fiduciaries: "Although relationships with third parties might be lucrative for telecoms, any entity collecting sensitive information like location data has a moral obligation to keep it safe."
    #privacy #security

    https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/locationsmart-security-it-is-totally-legal-for-cellphone-companies-to-sell-location-data-to-third-parties.html

    Wednesday, 23-May-2018 16:47:48 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  11. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 03:23:09 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    Doctorow: "if that data leaks, it would allow anyone to break into your kid's cloud and plunder all their private data... Naturally, Teensafe stored thousands of parents and kids' usernames and passwords, without encryption, on an insecure server." #privacy #security

    https://boingboing.net/2018/05/20/utter-coathangers.html

    Tuesday, 22-May-2018 03:23:09 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  12. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 15:40:18 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    the question now: "How much intercepted encrypted e-mail will be (or has been) decrypted by intelligence agencies?" Not all PGP/GPG e-mail is vulnerable... but the extent of the fallout won't be known for a while. #security #privacy

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/decade-old-efail-attack-can-decrypt-previously-obtained-encrypted-e-mails/

    Monday, 14-May-2018 15:40:18 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  13. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 15:10:06 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    PGP/GPG users: Keep Calm and Disable HTML Rendering. It's a good idea to protect you from other kinds of tracking (images in HTML e-mails). Short-term mitigation steps for "Efail" vulnerability: https://efail.de #security #privacy

    Monday, 14-May-2018 15:10:06 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  14. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 27-Apr-2018 20:58:00 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "...a 'rogue Alexa skill' that bypasses Amazon's security checks: it lurks silently and unkillably in the background of your Alexa, listening to all speech in range of it and transcribing it, then exfiltrating the text and audio of your speech..." https://boingboing.net/2018/04/26/user-supplied-listening-device.html

    #privacy #security

    Friday, 27-Apr-2018 20:58:00 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  15. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 15:15:52 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "The really big data brokers - firms such as Acxiom, Experian, Quantium, Corelogic, eBureau, ID Analytics - can hold as many as 3,000 data points on every consumer, says the US Federal Trade Commission." #privacy #security

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43697133

    Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 15:15:52 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  16. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 14:26:40 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "The new terms asserted that Eventbrite staff had the right to 'enter and remain' at any event organized with the platform, record the entirety of the event with video and photography... and retain copyright over everything recorded." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/eventbrite-rolls-back-policy-that-would-have-given-it-right-to-record-events/

    #privacy #security

    Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 14:26:40 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  17. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 14:06:06 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "Netizens have the wrong idea about what their web browser's 'private' or 'incognito' mode actually does. This is according to researchers at the University of Chicago, in the US, and Leibniz University Hannover, in Germany, who this week declared that folks mistakenly believe that by enabling the incognito browsing mode, they are fully shielded from online tracking and malware." #privacy #security

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/24/private_web_browsing_study/

    Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 14:06:06 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  18. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Apr-2018 15:21:11 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "A malicious app that can be downloaded from the Google Play store is extremely dangerous, as users will not think twice about downloading it because of their trust in Google" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/malicious-apps-in-google-play-gave-attackers-considerable-control-of-phones/ #security #privacy

    Tuesday, 17-Apr-2018 15:21:11 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  19. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 13-Apr-2018 20:04:49 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab

    "Published today, a two-year study of Android security updates has revealed a distressing gap between the software patches Android companies claim to have on their devices and the ones they actually have."

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/13/17233122/android-software-patch-trust-problem # privacy #security

    Friday, 13-Apr-2018 20:04:49 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
  20. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 19:34:14 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab
    • Exodus Privacy

    135 tracker signatures in the @exodus scanner, and all 2325 reports recomputing! expect some interesting finds in the reports 🕵️ https://news.exodus-privacy.eu.org/ #privacy #security

    Friday, 16-Mar-2018 19:34:14 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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