Security Stories for 2019

Major US Companies Breached, Robbed, and Spied on by Chinese Hackers 118
Microsoft Takes Down 50 Domains Operated by North Korean Hackers 45
Security Camera Startup Wyze Leaked Data on Millions of Customers 36
CNET Releases '2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame' Dishonoring This Year's Biggest Data Breaches 19
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
Ring's Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites To Rethink Glowing Endorsements 38
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
No, Spotify, You Shouldn't Have Sent Mysterious USB Drives To Journalists 53
Chinese Hacker Group Caught Bypassing 2FA 27
'We Tested Ring's Security. It's Awful' 48
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Official Rules 10
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users 40
Facebook Won't Use 2FA Numbers To Suggest Friends Anymore 20
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password 46
Vladimir Putin 'Still Uses Obsolete Windows XP' Despite Hacking Risk 103
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox 67
Microsoft: We Never Encourage a Ransomware Victim To Pay 62
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Npm Team Warns of New 'Binary Planting' Bug 17
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air 112
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say 5
ACLU is Suing ICE For Details on How It Uses Phone Spying Devices 14
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Are You One Of Avast's 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. 24
Cyberattack Hits City of Pensacola After Shooting At Naval Air Station 13
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
Keep Your IoT Devices on a Separate Network, FBI Says 111
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum 15
44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords in the First Three Months of 2019 34
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections 43
Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million 26
New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies 37
Apple's Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult To Refurbish Macs 178
Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys 29
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
A Bug In Microsoft's Login System Put Users At Risk of Account Hijacks 20
Dutch Politician Faces 3 Years In Prison For Hacking iCloud Accounts, Leaking Nudes 31
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding 69
Vulnerability In Fully Patched Android Phones Under Active Attack By Bank Thieves 98
All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned 69
iOS Apps Could Really Benefit From the Newly Proposed Security.plist Standard 13
Now Even the FBI is Warning About Your Smart TV's Security 126
Millions of SMS Text Messages Exposed In Unencrypted Database 17
Hacker Stole Unreleased Music and Then Tried To Frame Someone Else 41
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer 113
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Some Fortinet Products Shipped With Hardcoded Encryption Keys 21
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari Cracked In China's White-Hat Hacker Competition 17
New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands 80
OnePlus Notifies Customers of Data Breach Impacting Users of Its Online Store 7
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
Twitter Will Finally Let Users Disable SMS as Default 2FA Method 9
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password 73
T-Mobile Reveals Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Customers 15
Google Will Pay Bug Hunters Up To $1.5M if They Can Hack Its Titan M Chip 21
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Antivirus Vendors and Non-Profits Join To Form 'Coalition Against Stalkerware' 23
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank 44
Why Two Pentesters In Iowa Are Facing A Criminal Investigation and Trespassing Charges 110
Lessons From the Cyberattack On India's Largest Nuclear Power Plant 113
Over Half of Fortune 500 Exposed To Remote Access Hacking 29
Windows and Linux Get Options To Disable Intel TSX To Prevent Zombieload v2 Attacks 67
TPM-FAIL Vulnerabilities Impact TPM Chips In Desktops, Laptops, Servers 32
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
Intel Fixes a Security Flaw It Said Was Repaired 6 Months Ago 27
Intel's Cascade Lake CPUs Impacted By New Zombieload v2 Attack 43
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
Canada's OpenText To Buy Cloud Security Firm Carbonite For $1.42 Billion 15
Google Asks Three Outside Antivirus Firms To Start Scanning Submissions To Android's Play Store 14
Security Researchers Exploit Amazon Echo's Chromium Bug, Win $60,000 Bounty 6
'Microsoft Defender ATP' Antivirus is Coming to Linux 100
6 In 10 Websites May Be Impacted by jQuery XSS Vulnerabilities 25
Boeing's Poor Information Security Threatens Passenger Safety, National Security, Says Researcher 21
'Platinum' Hacking Group Strikes Again With Complex Titanium Backdoor To Windows 14
DNS-over-HTTPS Will Eventually Roll Out in All Major Browsers, Despite ISP Opposition 119
Ransomware, Data Breaches At Hospitals Tied To Uptick In Fatal Heart Attacks 35
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers 25
Chronicle, the Google Moonshot Cybersecurity Startup That Was Supposed To Completely Change the Industry, is Imploding 41
Trend Micro Security Incident Involving Selling Customer Data Was an Inside Job 16
Google Asks Three Mobile Security Firms To Help Scan Play Store Apps 13
This Website Has Solved Cybersecurity 47
The Original Google Pixel Will Get One Final Update In December 47
Don't Reboot Your Computer After You've Been Infected With Ransomware, Experts Say 56
Android Bug Lets Hackers Plant Malware Via NFC Beaming 14
With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri 65
A Widespread BlueKeep 'Exploit' Is Targetting Unpatched Windows 7/XP Computers 38
Study Estimates 50% of WebAssembly Sites Are Using It For Malicious Purposes 89
Data Breaches Reported at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com 17
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
NordVPN Users' Passwords Exposed In Mass Credential-Stuffing Attacks 13
Google Discloses Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild 17
Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare Announce New TLS Delegated Credentials Standard 25
Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach 20
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
At Least 13 Managed Service Providers Were Used To Push Ransomware This Year 9
WhatsApp Hacked To Spy on Top Government Officials at US Allies 42
China-Linked Hackers Target Military, Government Texts, FireEye Says 16
Facebook Permanently Deletes the Accounts of NSO Workers 48
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Google Workers Sidestepping Controversial Chrome Tool Sparks Security Worries 55
Country of Georgia Hit By Massive Cyberattack 22
Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea 31
New 'Unremovable' XHelper Malware Has Infected 45,000 Android Devices 60
Facebook Sues Israel's NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Hack 11
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
iPhone Emulation Company Sued by Apple Says It's Making iPhones Safer 35
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Target Sports Organizations 7
Most System Administrators Prefer Firewall GUIs Over CLIs 159
Microsoft To Deliver Azure Sphere, a Linux-based Chip and Cloud Security Service, in February 2020 29
How the 2018 Olympic Cyberattack Was Traced To Russian Hackers 29
Russian Cyberattackers Stole Iranian Tools, Then Attacked 35 Countries 20
Symantec Antivirus Crashed Chrome 78 23
City of Johannesburg Hit by Ransomware, Again 24
Security Researcher Gets Access To Thousands of Automatic Pet Feeders By Xiaomi 35
A DDoS Gang is Extorting Businesses Posing as Russian Government Hackers 18
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
Google Says a Fix For Pixel 4 Face Unlock Is 'Months' Away 32
Avast Says Hackers Breached Internal Network Through Compromised VPN Profile 13
Microsoft Announces Secured-core PCs To Counter Firmware Attacks 53
Equifax Used 'admin' as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit 59
Popular VPN Service NordVPN Says it Was Hacked 44
Researchers Tricked Google Home and Alexa Into Eavesdropping and Password Phishing 34
WAV Audio Files Are Now Being Used To Hide Malicious Code 16
Google Criticized After Voice From 'Nest' Camera Threatens to Steal Baby 125
Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Controlled Its Malware Partly Through Reddit Posts 18
Would You Trust Amazon To Run Free and Fair Elections? 80
Unpatched Linux Bug May Open Devices To Serious Attacks Over Wi-Fi 21
Air Force Finally Retires 8-Inch Floppies From Missile Launch Control System 77
Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser 52
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World 47
Google Expands Chrome's Site Isolation Feature To Android Users 6
Samsung Says Anyone's Thumbprint Can Unlock $900 Galaxy S10 Smartphone 40
US Carried Out Secret Cyber Strike on Iran in Wake of Saudi Oil Attack 85
Argentinian Security Researcher Arrested After Tweeting About Government Hack 48
China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests 47
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
Thoma Bravo To Buy Sophos For $3.9 Billion 15
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 37
Invisible Hardware Hacks Allowing Full Remote Access Cost Pennies 84
IRS Programmer Stole Identities, Funded A Two-Year Shopping Spree 91
Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server and Releases All Their Decryption Keys 55
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers 60
Cisco Hit By an Internal Network Outage 33
Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw Fixed In Popular Terminal App For MacOS 15
Tor Project Removes 13.5% of Current Servers For Running EOL Versions 9
Schneier Slams Australia's Encryption Laws and CyberCon Speaker Bans 51
Senator Proposes Mandatory Labeling For Products With Mics, Cameras 42
D-Link Home Routers Open To Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched 92
Bipartisan Senate Report Calls For Sweeping Effort To Prevent Russian Interference in 2020 Election 330
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
FBI Warns About Attacks That Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication 29
Russian Malware 'Patches' Chrome and Firefox To Fingerprint TLS Traffic 13
Attackers Exploit New 0-day Vulnerability Giving Full Control of Android Phones 26
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
Chrome Promises 'No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS ' 46
macOS Systems Can Be Abused In DDoS Attacks 18
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Targeted a 2020 Presidential Campaign 100
Dutch Police Take Down Hornets' Nest of DDoS Botnets 17
Government Plans To Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants 232
AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 Series Desktop CPUs Will Offer Full RAM Encryption 53
Hackers Put Porn Vids On Promo Screens Above Asics Store and Detroit Billboard 56
Ransomware Forces 3 Hospitals To Turn Away All But the Most Critical Patients 89
Former Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty To Hacking User Emails in Search For Porn 52
Over 500 US Schools Were Hit By Ransomware in 2019 27
Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables That Hack You Will Be Mass Produced and Sold 57
Krebs Publishes 'Interview With the Guy Who Tried To Frame Me For Heroin Possession' 52
Linus Torvalds Approves New Kernel 'Lockdown' Feature 86
China Hacks Airbus Suppliers For Commercial Secrets 50
'Massive' Coordinated Campaign Hijacked Many YouTube Accounts 16
Researchers Easily Breached Voting Machines For the 2020 Election 123
New Checkm8 Jailbreak Released For All iOS Devices Running A5 To A11 Chips 30
DoorDash Confirms Data Breach Affected 4.9 Million Customers, Workers, and Merchants 29
New York Sues Dunkin' Donuts Over Hack Affecting Thousands of People 30
'Narrator' Windows Utility Trojanized To Gain Full System Control 34
Hackers Looking Into Injecting Card Stealing Code on Routers, Rather Than Websites 25
Cloudflare Relaunches Its Security-Focused Mobile VPN Warp 19
Apple Says a Bug May Grant 'Full Access' To Third-Party Keyboards By Mistake 52
Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood 98
Russian State Hackers Rarely Share Code With One Another 31
Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs 25
Yahoo Data-Breach Settlement: You'll Get $100, If You're Lucky 36
Cloudflare Has a New Plan To Fight Bots -- and Climate Change 28
iOS 13 Ships With Known Lockscreen Bypass Flaw That Exposes Contacts 19
VPN Apps With 500M+ Installs Caught Serving Disruptive Ads To Android Users 14
47% of Organizations Have Cyber Insurance, Up From 34% in 2017: Study 28
World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow 30
Two Years Later, Hackers Are Still Breaching Local Government Payment Portals 5
Exposed RDP Servers See 150K Brute-Force Attempts Per Week 51
The FBI Tried To Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network 29
Crypto-mining Malware Saw New Life Over the Summer as Monero Value Tripled 10
Researchers Uncover 125 Vulnerabilities Across 13 Routers and NAS Devices 26
Password-Leaking Bug Purged From LastPass Extensions 8
Australia Concludes China Was Behind Hack on Parliament, Political Parties 53
Database Leaks Data on Most of Ecuador's Citizens, Including 6.7 Million Children 11
LastPass Bug Leaks Credentials From Previous Site 62
Ask Slashdot: Can A Lack of Privacy Be Weaponized? 77
IOS 13 Lock Screen Lets Anyone See Your Address Book 45
Released from Prison, Spammer Who Stole 17.5 Million Passwords Apologizes and Reforms 19
Two Penetration Testers Arrested For Attempted Burglary 63
Giant Entercom Radio Network Gets Ransomwared 14
T-Mobile Has a Secret Setting To Protect Your Account From Hackers That it Refuses To Talk About 34
New Simjacker Attack Exploited In the Wild To Track Users For At Least Two Years 15
Google To Run DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Experiment in Chrome 104
Weakness In Intel Chips Lets Researchers Steal Encrypted SSH Keystrokes 78
We Need To Prepare for the Future of War, NSA Official Says 57
Loophole That Lets People Share Your Private Instagram Pics and Stories Isn't a 'Hack' -- but Still, Heads Up 99
Thousands of Servers Infected With New Lilocked (Lilu) Ransomware 71
On Apple's Response To Google's Project Zero 54
Spring Cyberattack on US Power Grid 'Probably Just Some Script Kiddie' 62
Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default 147
Two College Students Nearly Grabbed Donald Trump's Tax Returns Online 247
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685% 57
Parts of Wikipedia Went Offline After 'Malicious' DDoS Attack 47
Exploit For Wormable BlueKeep Windows Bug Released Into the Wild 24
Apple Disputes Google's Claims of a Devastating iPhone Hack 22
Why Phones That Secretly Listen To Us Are a Myth 219
Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group is Wildly Profitable Despite Concerns Over Misuse of its Technology, Leaked Financials Show 8
Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone 25
Twitter Disables SMS-to-Tweet Feature After Its CEO Got Hacked Last Week 20
600,000 GPS Trackers Left Exposed Online With a Default Password of '123456' 52
Trusted Face Smart Unlock Method Has Been Removed From Android Devices 11
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
China Hacked Asian Telcos To Spy on Uighur Travelers 22

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