Top Zero Days, Data Breaches and Security Stories of 2019: News Wrap
From ransomware ramp up, to voice assistant privacy perils, the Threatpost team breaks down the top news stories from this past year.
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Twitter fixes an Android bug that could have allowed hackers to hijack accounts
Posted by Auto Poster | Dec 20, 2019 | Google, Social Media |
Twitter has updated its Android app to fix a security vulnerability that could have allowed someone to see nonpublic information about your account, as well as take control of it to send tweets and direct messages. According to...
Read MoreEven The Government Admits Facial Recognition Is Racially Biased
Posted by Auto Poster | Dec 20, 2019 | Misc |
A new federal study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) confirms, again, that facial recognition technology is riddled with a fundamental racial bias. Using nearly 200 facial recognition algorithms...
Read MoreWawa Data Breach: Malware Stole Customer Payment Card Info
Posted by Auto Poster | Dec 20, 2019 | Data Breaches |
Wawa said that payment-processing system malware had potentially affected all 850 of its locations.
Read MoreThis Week in Security: Unicode, Truecrypt, and NPM Vulnerabilities
Posted by Auto Poster | Dec 20, 2019 | Misc |
This Week in Security: Unicode, Truecrypt, and NPM Vulnerabilities Go to Source Unicode, the wonderful extension to to ASCII that gives us gems like “”, “”, and “”, has had some unexpected...
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