“Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app, is planning to roll out a new feature that aims to hide the sender's identity from potential attackers trying to intercept the communication.”
TLP1 : Green
“IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Red Hat for $34bn with the intent to enhance its cloud offerings”
TLP1 : Green
“Security experts Antonio Pirozzi and Pierluigi Paganini presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol. Security expert Antonio Pirozzi, director at ZLab malware lab at Cybaze firm, presented at the EU Cyber Threat Conference in Dublin conducted a research along with Pierluigi Paganini (aka @securityaffairs), about how crooks could abuse blockchain […]”
“A former security chief at Facebook has blasted Apple over its role in enabling Internet censorship in China. Alex Stamos said Apple needed to 'come clean' on how its products worked in China, saying tech firms had an 'ethical blind spot' in their dealings with Beijing.”
“The Triton malware has been used in attacks aimed at a critical infrastructure organization in the Middle East, experts speculate the involvement of a state-sponsored actor for sabotage purpose due to the lack of financial motivation and the level of sophistication of the attacks.”
TLP1 : Green
“The Information is right about Facebook’s scorched reputation when it comes to data privacy and security. This year has seen a number of disturbing revelations, as well as a growing understanding amongst users of just how the site exploits people’s private information.”
“The Titan M chip may be small and discreet, but it helps make the Pixel 3 and its beefier sibling, the Pixel 3 XL, among the most secure smartphones you can buy.”
TLP1 : Green
“A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly spy on victims.”
“VMware has released security updated to fix a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-6974) in the SVGA virtual graphics card used by its ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion solutions.”
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on building a digital defense against phishing scams targeting electronically deposited paychecks. In these schemes, scammers use phishing emails to direct employees to fraudulent websites and collect their work credentials. Scammers then use victims’ credentials to replace legitimate direct deposit information with their own account details.”
