We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epg4xm/amazon-ring-camera-security
LifeLabs reveals data breach, possibly affecting up to 15 million Canadians https://globalnews.ca/news/6308439/lifelabs-data-breach/
What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out/
VISA warns of POS malware incidents at gas pumps across North America https://www.zdnet.com/article/visa-warns-of-pos-malware-incidents-at-gas-pumps-across-north-america/
Thief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/thief-stole-payroll-data-for-thousands-of-facebook-employees
New Orleans city government under cyberattack; workers told to turn off, unplug computers https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_0039909a-1dd3-11ea-919e-938ea62f03b5.html
Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-now-bans-some-linux-web-browsers-from-their-services/
Mozilla to force all add-on devs to use 2FA to prevent supply-chain attacks https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-to-force-all-add-on-devs-to-use-2fa-to-prevent-supply-chain-attacks/
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/world/middleeast/Iran-bank-hacking-protests.html
The Snapdragon 865 will make phones worse in 2020, thanks to mandatory 5G https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/qualcomms-new-snapdragon-865-is-a-step-backwards-for-smartphone-design/
New Intel CPU Vulnerability Puts Protected Data At Risk https://respawnfirst.com/new-intel-cpu-vulnerability-puts-protected-data-at-risk/
‘Get your act together’: Tech companies face bipartisan congressional uproar over encryption https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/10/tech-companies-bipartisan-congress-encryption-080704
As Moscow’s facial recognition system activates, journalists find access to it for sale on the black market https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/06/as-moscow-s-facial-recognition-system-activates-journalists-find-access-to-it-for-sale-on-the-black-market
A bug in Microsoft’s login system put users at risk of account hijacks https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/02/microsoft-login-flaw-account-hijack/
FBI tells people to put black tape over smart TV cameras to protect against hackers https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/smart-tv-hack-fbi-cyber-stalk-camera-microphone-internet-a9230176.html
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