Security Stories for 2018

FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
Users Report Losing Bitcoin in Clever Hack of Electrum Wallets 72
Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District 82
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection 69
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked 91
Sneaky Mac Malware Went Undetected By AV Providers For Four Month 28
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers 108
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome 152
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers 147
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
A Corporate-issued Laptop Stolen From a Lenovo Employee in September Contained Unencrypted Payroll Data on APAC Staff 65
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
In a Test, 3D Model of a Head Was Able To Fool Facial Recognition System of Several Popular Android Smartphones 123
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
Chinese Spies Reportedly Behind Massive Marriott Hack 65
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards 95
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
ESET Discovers 21 New Linux Malware Families 67
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked 62
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Hackers Behind Breach at Hotel Group Marriott Left Clues Suggesting They Were Working For Chinese Government Intelligence Gathering Operation, Report Says 41
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Chrome Extension To Infect Victims 25
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Kubernetes' First Major Security Hole Discovered 90
House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign 163
Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps 78
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
SKY Brasil Exposes 32 Million Customer Records 19
Jailed 'Iceman' Hacker Now Charged With Drone-Smuggling Scheme Orchestrated From Prison 39
Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit 82
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
Marriott Says 500 million Starwood Guest Records Stolen in Massive Data Breach 71
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Mass Router Hack Exposes Millions of Devices To Potent NSA Exploit 73
I've Got a Bridge To Sell You. Why AutoCAD Malware Keeps Chugging On 66
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
Microsoft Warns Of Two Apps That Installed Root Certificates Then Leaked the Private Keys 79
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock 141
Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches 103
Rowhammer Attacks Can Now Bypass ECC Memory Protections 67
New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus 110
Amazon Has Emailed an Unspecified Number of Customers To Inform Them That Their Names and Addresses Were Disclosed by the Website, Blames 'Technical Error' 31
Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be 60
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks 32
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion 34
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' 29
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
Most ATMs Can Be Hacked in Under 20 Minutes 78
A Leaky Database of SMS Text Messages Exposed Password Resets and Two-Factor Codes 37
'The Internet Needs More Friction' 155
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker 154
The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. 137
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It 663
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites 66
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? 189
Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks 98
ProtonVPN Passes 1 Million Users and Launches on iOS 32
Facebook Patches Vulnerability That Could Have Exposed User Data 19
WannaCry is Still Dominating Ransomware 43
Google Suffered a Brief Outage on Monday Which Pushed Some of Its Traffic Through Russia, China and Nigeria; Company Says It Will Do an Investigation 70
The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP 258
US Chip Cards Are Being Compromised In the Millions 106
Apple Confirms Its T2 Security Chip Blocks Some Third-Party Repairs of New Macs 179
More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign 313
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) 229
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit 130
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race' 144
Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms 32
China Violated Obama-Era Cybertheft Pact, U.S. Official Says 74
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing 102
Vulnerability Could Make DJI Drones a Spy In the Sky 18
US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To VirusTotal 23
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
Researchers 'Break' Microsoft's Edge With Zero-Day Remote Code Exploit 50
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords 197
Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption 105
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History 82
Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability 116
Iranians Compromised a Highly Sensitive CIA Covert Communications System in 2011 by Using Google Search: Report 154
Hackers Claim They Possess Details of 120 Million Facebook Accounts, Publish Private Messages From 81,000 of Them 37
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks 55
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser 172
Apple's New T2 Security Chip Will Prevent Hackers From Eavesdropping On Your Microphone 145
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail 51
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox 110
Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds 80
Twelve Malicious Python Libraries Found and Removed From PyPI 36
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People 20
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin 193
New Windows Zero-Day Bug Helps Delete Any File, Exploit Available 74
Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack 85
Google Now Requires Partner OEMs To Offer Two Years of Security Updates To Popular Phones 74
Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say 81
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability 72
TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights 171
As PHP Group Patches High-Risk Bugs, 62% of Sites Still Use PHP 5 112
Equifax Web Site Designer Fined $50,000 And Confined To Home Over Insider Trading 105
HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers 70
Zero-Day In Popular jQuery Plugin Actively Exploited For At Least Three Years 44
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections 261
In an Unprecedented Move, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story 162
Google Warns Apple: Missing Bugs in Your Security Bulletins Are 'Disincentive To Patch' 43
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open 83
Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months 94
Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server 170
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything 228
Chrome 70 Arrives With Option To Disable Linked Sign-Ins, PWAs On Windows, and AV1 Decoder 53
Slack Doesn't Have End-to-End Encryption Because Your Boss Doesn't Want It 92
Apple 'Deeply Apologetic' Over Account Hacks in China 14
Medtronic Locks Down Vulnerable Pacemaker Programming Kit Due To Cybersecurity Concerns 40
Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' 202
US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say 102
Rivals ARM and Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet of Things 53
Pentagon Reveals Cyber Breach of Travel Records 36
A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is As Creepy As You Feared 144
How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack 36
Cops Told 'Don't Look' at New iPhones To Avoid Face ID Lock-Out 84
A Mysterious Grey-Hat Is Patching People's Outdated MikroTik Routers 74
The FBI Is Now Investigating Facebook's Security Breach Where Attackers Accessed 30 Million Users' Personal Information 31
Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-up 127
CoinMiners Use New Tricks To Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers 47
Over Nine Million Cameras and DVRs Open To APTs, Botnet Herders, and Voyeurs 34
MindBody-Owned FitMetrix Exposed Millions of User Records -- Thanks To Servers Without Passwords 29
The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All 75
WhatsApp Fixes Bug That Let Hackers Take Over App When Answering a Video Call 11
FBI Director on Whether Apple and Amazon Servers Had Chinese Spy Chips: 'Be Careful What You Read' 124
'Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account' 102
Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack 93
At Least Two US Attorneys General Are Investigating Google+ Breach 34
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg 191
Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites 177
Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption 101
Google Exposed Private Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Google+ Users and Then Opted Not To Disclose, Report Says 133
The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow 153
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever 201
UK Cyber Security Agency Backs Apple, Amazon China Hack Denials 56
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story 176
Bloomberg's Spy Chip Story Reveals the Murky World of National Security Reporting 67
California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device 240
The Software Side of China's Supply Chain Attack 63
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution 39
Israel Sends Nation-Wide Security Alert Following Reports About Hijacked WhatsApp Accounts 25
China Infiltrated Apple, Amazon and Other US Companies Using Spy Chips on Servers, According To Bloomberg; Apple, and Amazon, Among Others Refute the Report 369
Remote Access System Hacking Is No. 1 Patient Safety Risk 35
Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Apps 20
Some Apple Laptops Shipped With Intel Chips In 'Manufacturing Mode' 36
Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive 112
Hackers Are Selling Facebook Credentials on the Dark Web For $3 43
Google Updates Chrome Web Store Review Process and Sets New Extension Code Requirements 26
FBI Solves Mystery Surrounding 15-Year-Old Fruitfly Mac Malware Which Was Used By a Man To Watch Victims Via their Webcams, and Listen in On Conversations 111
In Boston: Election-Hacking War Game Bypasses Election Systems 43
California Becomes First State With an IoT Cybersecurity Law 55
An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference 46
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos 23
Python is a Hit With Hackers, Report Finds 72
Facebook Says it Has Discovered 'Security Issue' Affecting Nearly 50 Million Accounts, Investigation in Early Stages 72
Hacker Proclaims He'll Live-Stream an Attempt To Delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page This Sunday 51
Delta's Fully Biometric Terminal Is the First In the US 53
Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems 62
Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise 36
Apple's Device Enrollment Program Can Leak Sensitive Data About Devices, Owners 24
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking 48
Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds 110
Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million 18
Mozilla Rolls Out Recovery Key Option For Firefox Accounts 36
Password Managers Can Be Tricked Into Believing That Malicious Android Apps Are Legitimate 73
Google Promises Chrome Changes After Privacy Complaints 82
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers 293
Firefox Monitor Will Inform You of Data Breaches 34
Tencent Security Researcher Fined For Hacking Hotel WiFi and Publishing Internal Network Credentials Online 60
Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS 72
Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks 92
NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum 56
Purism Launches First Security Key with Tamper-Evident Protection for Laptops 27
Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets 48
Twitter Notifies Developers About API Bug That Shared DMs With Wrong Developers 12
Crippling DDoS Vulnerability Put the Entire Bitcoin Market At Risk 37
Equifax Slapped With UK's Maximum Penalty Over 2017 Data Breach 66
California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices 155
Zaif Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $60 Million Hack 32
'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails 40
'I'm Admin. You're Admin. Everyone is Admin.' Remote Access Bug Turns Western Digital My Cloud Into Everyone's Cloud 74
Cloudflare Wants Internet Route Leaks To Be a Thing of the Past 24
Hackers Stole Customer Credit Cards in Newegg Data Breach 149
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries 24
Hackers Hijack Surveillance Camera Footage With 'Peekaboo' Zero-Day Vulnerability 25
Altaba To Settle Lawsuits Relating To Yahoo Data Breach For $47 Million 18
Vulnerability in WebKit Crashes and Restarts iPhones and iPads 57
Cryptocurrency App Mocks Competitor For Getting Hacked. Gets Hacked 4 Days Later 30

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I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.