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Investors accuse FedEx of lying, stock dumping after NotPetya attack

September 23, 2019 0 Comments fedex, Law & order, lawsuit, malware, notpetya, petya, Ransomware, security threats, shareholders, stockholder derivative complaint, stockholders, tnt express

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:36:45 +0000

This is the second such suit, with shareholders asking why execs sold $40m+ of their shares while downplaying the ransomware attack.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DZkjtO37crE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Could EarEcho change the way we authenticate our phones?

September 23, 2019 0 Comments biometrics, earbuds, earecho, earphones, faceid, Machine Learning, Privacy, support vector machine

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:09:10 +0000

Researchers have discovered a way to use wireless earbuds as a biometric authentication system.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/uLNsYYCeWYs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Two charged with tech-support scamming the elderly for $10m

September 23, 2019 0 Comments elderly, fake tech support, Law & order, security threats, tech support, tech support scam, tech support scammers

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:55:01 +0000

The tech-support scammers were allegedly part of a network of crooks in the US and India who conned about 7,500 victims.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/0TbNYtAQBLk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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WannaCry – and why it never went away

September 23, 2019 0 Comments malware, Naked Security Live, Ransomware, Video, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:28:04 +0000

WannaCry still hasn’t died out, more than two years after the original attack. We went live to find out why…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lIObnk1QnAM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Server-squashing zero-day published for phpMyAdmin tool

September 23, 2019 0 Comments cross site request forgery, csrf, mariadb, mysql, owasp, phpmyadmin, security threats, vulnerability, zero day

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:22:50 +0000

A researcher has just published a zero-day security bug in one of the web’s most popular database administration software packages.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XxpMh0dUMaQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IBM’s new 53-qubit quantum ‘mainframe’ is live in the cloud

September 23, 2019 0 Comments IBM, Machine Learning, mainframe, q system one, quantum computer, Quantum Computing, Quantum Physics, qubit

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:10:59 +0000

IBM has boosted its growing stable of quantum computers with a new 53-quantum bit (qubit) device, the most powerful ever offered for commercial use.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NcZHCu0FsAw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: Use of AI surveillance is growing around the world

September 23, 2019 0 Comments AI, aigs, aigs index, Artificial intelligence, carnegie endowment for international peace, china, Cisco, facial recognition, Government security, government surveillance, hikvision, Huawei, IBM, Law & order, Machine Learning, nec, palantir, Privacy, smart cities, spying, steven feldstein, surveillance

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:47:38 +0000

It’s not just China: at least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes, research shows.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mWK0Hr3l6MU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook Libra rejected by France as “dangerous”

September 23, 2019 0 Comments bruno le maire, cryptocurrency, facebook, facebook libra, france, Law & order, libra, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:57:29 +0000

France finance minister: Libra won’t be allowed onto European soil.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XH0fbN6_glY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos is a Visionary in the Network Firewall Magic Quadrant 2019

September 19, 2019 0 Comments Corporate, Sophos Products, XG Firewall

Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:24:31 +0000

We’re excited to announce that Gartner has named Sophos a Visionary in the Network Firewall Magic Quadrant for 2019.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/-fnl72gCev4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020

September 19, 2019 0 Comments air force, aviation, Defcon, Government security, hack the air force, Hacking, military, military security, satellite, security events, security threats, vulnerability, will roper

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:42:48 +0000

This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane’s subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wh-pZprliQk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>