cybersecurity

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December 16, 2020

Study Shows Robot Vacuum Cleaners Can Be Hacked to Spy on People

By modifying LiDAR sensors on robot vacuum cleaners, hackers can use it for LidarPhone attack and listen to private conservation for extracting sensitive information.

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December 14, 2020

Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol

Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will make it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.

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December 14, 2020

Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox

Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.

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December 14, 2020

Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data

Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to X-Mode Social’s code that may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data.

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December 12, 2020

Chinese embassy blames hackers for retweet of Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated in election

The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the election.

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December 12, 2020

Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers

FireEye, a $3.5 billion top cybersecurity company has been hacked by a well-endowed nation-state.

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December 5, 2020

Nation-state backed hackers going after COVID vaccine supply chain

Cyber attackers have targeted the cold supply chain needed to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report detailing a sophisticated operation likely backed by a nation-state.