Increased Focus on iOS Hacking Leads to Drop in Exploit Prices
Exploit acquisition company Zerodium announced last week that it would no longer be buying certain types of iOS exploits for the next 2-3 months due to surplus. It also announced that prices for iOS exploit chains that require some user interaction and don’t provide persistence will likely drop in the near future. Furthermore, Zerodium’s CEO…
Czech, US to Cooperate on Security of 5G Networks
The Czech government office said the document was signed remotely by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The signing comes amid a global battle between the U.S. and China’s Huawei, the world’s biggest maker of network infrastructure equipment. Huawei has become the target of U.S. security concerns because of…
Microsoft Launches Free Zero Trust Assessment Tool
Nupur Goyal, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, told SecurityWeek that the tool is free and available to anyone. “Our assessment tool will help orgs assess readiness across identities, devices, apps, infrastructure, network and data, and then provide go-dos and deployment guidance to help them reach key milestones,” Goyal said. Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus…
Zoom Updates Privacy Policy After Experts Raise Concerns
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Zoom provides users with a platform that combines video and audio conferencing, online meetings, chat, screen sharing, and more. With the current COVID-19 pandemic forcing many to work from home and start using services such as Zoom for collaboration purposes, investigative journalists and web veterans decided to have a look…
Most Security Pros Prefer Enterprise Over Industrial Cybersecurity: Survey
The respondents of the survey represented the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Australia. Globally, over 75% of IT security pros said they prefer enterprise cybersecurity to industrial cybersecurity. In the US, more than 70% would rather protect enterprise networks. “This is where it’s imperative that CISOs and IT security teams catch up on…
Massachusetts Governor Announces New Cybersecurity Program
The Republican governor addressed the third annual Massachusetts Cybersecurity Forum Thursday at the Statehouse. Baker and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative convened the event to bring about 200 cybersecurity experts together. The new program is backed by $300,000 managed by the collaborative’s MassCyberCenter. It will pay for statewide workshops to provide municipalities tools to develop or…
Officials Push Facebook for Way to Peek at Encrypted Messages
The request was made in a letter signed by US Attorney General William Barr, British home secretary Priti Patel and Australian minister for home affairs Peter Dutton. “We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services… without including a means for lawful access…
Google Expands Use of Password Checkup Tool, Unveils New Privacy Features
Launched in February 2019 as an extension for Chrome, Password Checkup is designed to display a warning whenever users log in to a website with credentials that are known to have been compromised in a third-party data breach. Password Checkup has now been added to the password manager in Google Account. This integration will enable…
Facebook Offers Rewards for Instagram Data Abuse Reports
In April 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced the launch of a bug bounty program focusing on the misuse of private information. The social media giant has been offering between $500 and tens of thousands of dollars for reports of apps that collect and transfer personal data. This program has now been expanded…
Florida City Pays $600,000 Ransom to Save Computer Records
The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. The council already voted to spend almost $1 million on new computers and hardware after hackers captured the city’s system three weeks…