Security Stories for 2020

T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records 14
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Viewed Source Code 47
CISA Updates SolarWinds Guidance, Tells US Govt Agencies To Update Right Away 27
NSO Used Real People's Location Data To Pitch Its Contact-Tracing Tech, Researchers Say 19
Finland Says Hackers Accessed MPs' Emails Accounts 17
Vietnam Targeted in Complex Supply Chain Attack 23
'Unforced Error' in Suspected Russian Data Breach May Have Led to Its Discovery 50
Citrix Devices Are Being Abused as DDoS Attack Vectors 17
Russians Are Believed To Have Used Microsoft Resellers in Cyberattacks 50
GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test. 236
Hackers Threaten To Leak Plastic Surgery Pictures 33
US Cyber Agency Says SolarWinds Hackers Are 'Impacting' State, Local Governments 35
Signal Says Cellebrite Cannot Break Its Encryption 14
DHS Is Looking Into Backdoors In Smart TVs By China's TCL 85
'Dozens of Email Accounts' Were Hacked At US Treasury 24
Nintendo Leak Reveals Extreme Measures Taken To Track Hackers 54
Law Enforcement Take Down Three Bulletproof VPN Providers 36
Microsoft and McAfee Headline Newly-Formed 'Ransomware Task Force' 28
Physical Addresses of 270K Ledger Owners Leaked On Hacker Forum 10
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate 45
Dozens of Journalists' iPhones Hacked With NSO 'Zero-Click' Spyware, Says Citizen Lab 45
How Do US Government Agencies Verify Security Software from Private Contractors? 117
Microsoft: a Second, Different Threat Actor Had Also Infected SolarWinds With Malware 61
3 Million Users Have Installed 28 Malicious Chrome or Edge Extensions, Says Avast 29
RubyGems Catches Two Packages Trying to Steal Cryptocurrency with Clipboard Hijacking 14
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
Microsoft: 2021 Is the Year Passwords Die 185
UK Use of Software Linked To Russia-Hack Runs Deep 29
Microsoft President Calls SolarWinds Hack an 'Act of Recklessness' 87
Hackers Tied To Russia Hit US Nuclear Agency, Three States 100
'Evil Mobile Emulator Farms' Used To Steal Millions From US and EU Banks 59
Up To 3 Million Devices Infected By Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-Ons 17
Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account 96
SolarWinds Hides List of High-Profile Customers After Devastating Hack 58
Microsoft and Industry Partners Seize Key Domain Used In SolarWinds Hack 18
Academics Turn RAM Into Wi-Fi Cards To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems 105
Hackers at Center of Sprawling Spy Campaign Turned SolarWinds' Dominance Against It 49
SolarWinds Says 18,000 Customers Were Impacted by Recent Hack 23
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
Open Source Developers Say Securing Their Code Is 'Insufferably Boring' and 'Soul-Withering' 150
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal 24
CISA and FBI Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting K-12 Schools 13
Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information 19
Microsoft Exposes Adrozek, Malware That Hijacks Chrome, Edge, and Firefox 17
EU Agency in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Says it Was Hacked 40
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked By a Nation-State 51
GE Puts Default Password In Radiology Devices, Leaving Healthcare Networks Exposed 40
Cloudflare and Apple Design a New Privacy-Friendly Internet Protocol 90
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
Hacker Opens 2,732 PickPoint Package Lockers Across Moscow 31
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
Dell Announces New Solutions For Its Supply Chain's Security 22
Data of 243 Million Brazilians Exposed Online via Website Source Code 34
Mysterious Phishing Campaign Targets Organizations in COVID-19 Vaccine Cold Chain 20
FBI Warns of Email Forwarding Rules Being Abused in Recent Hacks 10
Malicious npm Packages Caught Installing Remote Access Trojans 20
iPhone Zero-Click Wi-Fi Exploit is One of the Most Breathtaking Hacks Ever 114
Microsoft Removes 18 Malicious Edge Extensions for Injecting Ads Into Web Pages 15
Companies Urged To Adjust Hiring Requirements for Cyber Jobs 164
Raspberry Pi Used To Hack Tesla Model X SUV Key Fob 43
A Hacker is Selling Access To the Email Accounts of Hundreds of C-Level Executives 40
Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left 'in the Dark' After a Cyberattack 112
US Fertility Says Patient Data Was Stolen in a Ransomware Attack 15
Sophos Notifies Customers of Data Exposure After Database Misconfiguration 5
hCaptcha Runs On 15% Of the Internet 66
2FA Bypass Discovered In Web Hosting Software cPanel 9
Apple Security Chief Maintains Innocence After Bribery Charges 71
'Smart' Doorbells For Sale On Amazon, eBay Came Stocked With Security Vulnerabilities 30
Walmart-exclusive Router and Others Sold on Amazon and eBay Contain Hidden Backdoors To Control Devices 94
Ask Slashdot: Why Haven't We Implemented Public Key Infrastructure Voting? 433
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack 10
LidarPhone Attack Converts Smart Vacuums Into Microphones 33
Massive, China-State-Funded Hack Hits Companies Around the World, Report Says 99
The Worst Passwords of 2020 Show We Are Just As Lazy About Security As Ever 128
Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation 587
Microsoft Reveals Pluton, a Custom Security Chip Built Into Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Processors 143
Mac Certificate Check Stokes Fear That Apple Logs Every App You Run 74
Twitter Names Famed Hacker 'Mudge' as Head of Security 14
Ok Google: Please Publish Your DKIM Secret Keys 108
Apple Responds To Gatekeeper Issue With Upcoming Fixes 54
Data Breach Exposes 27 Million Texas Driver's License Records 34
Credit Card Numbers For Millions of Hotel Guests Exposed By Misconfigured Cloud Database 46
Is There a Better Way to Create Secure Passwords? 143
Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say 423
Microsoft: Russian, North Korean Cyberattacks Target COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts 28
Security Holes Opened Back Door To TCL Android Smart TVs 55
Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone 121
DNS Cache Poisoning, the Internet Attack From 2008, Is Back From the Dead 22
Report: Swiss Government Long in Dark Over CIA Front Company 25
Microsoft Urges Users To Stop Using Phone-Based Multi-Factor Authentication 164
Chrome To Block Tab-Nabbing Attacks 27
Compal, the Second-Largest Laptop Manufacturer in the World, Hit By Ransomware 25
On Older Versions of Android, Many Let's Encrypt-Secured Sites May Stop Working in 2021 45
Cyberattackers Now Also Make Linux Versions of Their Ransomware 77
Ransomware Gangs That Steal Your Data Don't Always Delete It 28
GitHub Denies Getting Hacked 10
Configuration Snafu Exposes Passwords For Two Million Marijuana Growers 29
23,600 Hacked Databases Have Leaked From a Defunct 'Data Breach Index' Site 1
Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras 84
Google To GitHub: Time's Up -- This Unfixed 'High-Severity' Security Bug Affects Developers 32
WeWork Employees Used an Alarmingly Insecure Printer Password 29
Chrome Will Soon Have Its Own Dedicated Certificate Root Store 56
Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach 55
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild 32
Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception 47
Wisconsin Republican Party Says Hackers Stole $2.3 Million 162
FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of 'Credible Threat' from Hackers 20
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware 21
Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo 26
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers 108
Over 100 Irrigation Systems Left Exposed Online Without a Password 29
Ransomware Hit a Georgia County. That Didn't Stop Its Ballot Counting. 58
'How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator' 110
Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid 66
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games 60
National Guard Called In To Thwart Cyberattack in Louisiana Weeks Before Election 31
Bot Generated Fake Nudes of Over 100,000 Women Without Their Knowledge, Says Report 57
Dutch Hacker Says He Logged Into President Trump's Twitter Account 99
Adblockers Installed 300,000 Times Are Malicious and Should Be Removed Now 33
Mysterious Hackers Donating Stolen Money 49
QAnon/8Chan Sites Back Online After Being Ousted By DDoS-Protection Vendor 211
Google Confirms the Nest Secure Has Been Discontinued 26
Microsoft Adds Option To Disable JScript In Internet Explorer 21
US Charges Russian Hackers Behind NotPetya, KillDisk, OlympicDestroyer Attacks 33
Three npm Packages Opened Remote-Access Shells on Linux and Windows Systems 65
3 TB of Private Webcam/Home Security Video Leaked on Porn Sites 44
How Ransomware Puts Your Hospital At Risk 35
Google Says it Mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS Attack in 2017, Largest Known To Date 15
Robinhood Estimates Hackers Infiltrated Almost 2,000 Accounts 19
Ubisoft, Crytek Data Posted on Ransomware Gang's Site 2
Google and Intel Warn of High-Severity Bluetooth Security Bug In Linux 41
Florida Could Become First State To Offer Digital Driver's Licenses 55
Split-Second 'Phantom' Images Can Fool Tesla's Autopilot 84
Zoom To Roll Out End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) Calls 31
Apple Is Poaching From Google's iPhone Hacking Team 18
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy 49
How Many Americans Still Secretly Use Their Ex's Passwords 42
Backdoor In Kids' Smartwatch Makes It Possible For Someone To Covertly Take Pictures, Record Audio 16
Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw 81
America's 'Cyber Command' Is Trying to Disrupt the World's Largest Botnet 37
America's FBI Warns of Security Risks in Using Hotel Wi-Fi 88
Computers Aboard Airliners Vulnerable to Hacking, Watchdog Says 29
Apple Pays $288,000 To White-Hat Hackers Who Had Run of Company's Network 24
Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work 7
Google Accounts Get Security Boost With New Critical Alerts System 19
Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents 31
Cellmate: Male Chastity Gadget Hack Could Lock Users In 126
Tesla Hacker Reveals What Driver-Facing Camera Is Looking For 71
Some Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Resort To Pen and Paper After Ransomware Hits Software 81
A Security Flaw In Grindr Let Anyone Easily Hijack User Accounts 11
Netflix Will Only Stream In 4K To Macs That Have a T2 Security Chip 103
Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam 51
Huawei 'Failed To Improve UK Security Standards' 7
Huawei Ready To Reveal Inner Workings To Show No Security Threat 76
North Korea Has Tried To Hack 11 Officials of the UN Security Council 9
All Four of the World's Largest Shipping Companies Have Been Hit By Cyberattacks 12
Microsoft: Some Ransomware Attacks Take Less Than 45 Minutes 17
Google Removes 17 Android Apps Caught Engaging In WAP Billing Fraud 57
Hacker Publishes Info On Las Vegas-Area Students After Demanding Ransom 114
Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote 37
Healthcare Giant UHS Hit By Ransomware Attack, Sources Say 19
Too Many Staff Have Privileged Work Accounts For No Good Reason, Reckon IT Bods 99
'Google App Engine' Abused to Create Unlimited Phishing Pages 7
Twitter Warns of Possible API Keys Leak 9
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks As US Election Looms 80
Ring's Latest Security Camera Is a Drone That Flies Around Inside Your House 81
DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released On Dark Web 22
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County's Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns 51
Microsoft Secures Backend Server That Leaked Bing Data 19
Russia Wants To Ban the Use of Secure Protocols Such As TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI 59
Feds Issue Emergency Order For Agencies To Patch Critical Windows Flaw 61
Major Activision Hack Reportedly Compromises Over 500,000 Call of Duty Players 17
Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps, Researchers Say 28
Google 'Formally' Bans Stalkerware Apps From the Play Store 32
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Hacked After Posting Boarding Pass on Instagram 36
Patient Dies After Hospital Hit By Ransomware Attack 167
Billions of Devices Vulnerable To New 'BLESA' Bluetooth Spoofing Attack 27
Zerologon Attack Lets Hackers Take Over Enterprise Networks Within 3 Seconds 59
Personal Information of Roughly 46,000 Veterans Exposed In VA Hack 19
A Bug In Joe Biden's Campaign App Gave Anyone Access To Millions of Voter Files 83
FBI Says Credential Stuffing Attacks Are Behind Some Recent Bank Hacks 30
CISA: Chinese State Hackers Are Exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange Bugs 26
Security Researchers Detail New 'BlindSide' Speculative Execution Attack 33
Biden Campaign Firm Hit By Suspected Kremlin Hacking Attack 177
Ransomware Accounted For 41% of All Cyber Insurance Claims in H1 2020 13
Tesla Can Detect Aftermarket Hacks Designed To Defeat EV Performance Paywalls 209
Windows 10 Themes Can Be Abused To Steal Windows Passwords 37
City of Hartford Postpones First Day of School After Ransomware Attack 7
Chilean Bank Shuts Down All Branches Following Ransomware Attack 18
Most Cyber-Security Reports Only Focus On the Cool Threats 27
China To Launch Initiative To Set Global Data-Security Rules 81
Apple Opens Up -- Slightly -- on Hong Kong's National Security Law 22
How a White-Hat Hacker Once Gained Control of Tesla's Entire Fleet 42
Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space 42
A Single Text Is All It Took To Unleash Code-Execution Worm In Cisco Jabber 12
The Terrorist Group is Defeated and Routed. But Its Backup Plan Survives 27
European ISPs Report Mysterious Wave of DDoS Attacks 8
The FBI Botches Its DNC Hack Warning In 2016 -- But Says It Won't Next Time 90
CISA Orders Agencies To Set Up Vulnerability Disclosure Programs 4
Private Intel Firm Buys Location Data to Track People to their 'Doorstep' 20
Twitter Hack May Have Had Another Mastermind: A 16-Year-Old 34
Trump Administration Forces Facebook and Google To Drop Hong Kong Cable 56
FBI Worried Ring and Other Doorbell Cameras Could Tip Owners Off To Police Searches 128
Apple Mistakenly Approved a Widely Used Malware To Run on Macs 44
'Unusually Large Number' of Breached SendGrid Accounts Are Sending Spams and Scams 13
Visa Unveils More Powerful AI Tool That Approves or Denies Card Transactions 50
A Quarter of the Alexa Top 10K Websites Are Using Browser Fingerprinting Scripts 13
New Zealand Stock Exchange Halted by Cyber-Attack 22
Russian Arrested For Trying To Recruit an Insider and Hack a Nevada Company 30
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers 27
Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster 80
Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World 55
Microsoft Removes Registry Tweak That Allowed Users To Permanently Disable Windows Defender 126
'DiceKeys' Creates a Master Password For Life With One Roll 98
Former Uber Exec Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach 13
Some Email Clients Are Vulnerable To Attacks Via 'mailto' Links 35
Google Fixes Major Gmail Bug Seven Hours After Exploit Details Go Public 39
235 Million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak 19
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies 32
Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera 156
Researchers Can Duplicate Keys From the Sounds They Make In Locks 33
AI Company Leaks Over 2.5 Million Medical Records 23
Chrome 86 Will Warn Users About Insecure Forms On HTTPS Pages 37
An Alexa Bug Could Have Exposed Your Voice History To Hackers 42
Safest Voting Method Is Using Paper, Leading Cyber Expert Says 169
The NSA's Guidelines for Protecting Location Data 30
Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? 15
A Simple Telephony Honeypot Received 1.5 Million Robocalls Across 11 Months 65
Jack Daniel's Manufacturer Was Target of Apparent Ransomware Attack 30
FBI and NSA Expose New Linux Malware Drovorub, Used by Russian State Hackers 72
Homeland Security Details New Tools For Extracting Device Data at US Borders 113
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, Computer Backup, and Secure 'Vaults' Out of Beta 19
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks 113
Settlement for Google+ Breach Offers Class Members Up to $12 Each 67
Researcher Discovers New 'HTTP Request Smuggling Attack' Variants 9
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to 'Achilles' Flaw in Qualcomm Chips 36
Massive Hack Hits Reddit 147
Security Researcher Troy Hunt is Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base 25
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
US Now Offers $10 Million Reward For Election Interference Tips 163
Cluster of 295 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google and Bing Search Results 28
LastPass Will Warn You If Your Passwords Show Up On the Dark Web 34
Canon Hit by Maze Ransomware Attack, 10TB Data Allegedly Stolen 31
Twitter Says Android Security Bug Gave Access To Direct Messages 4
FBI Issues Warning Over Windows 7 End-of-Life 151

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