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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 12th of April 2021 10:29:43 AM Filed under
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  • Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation

    Google’s Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been exploited by “Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation”: [...]

  • What if We Made Paying Ransoms Illegal?

    A lot of what I reacted to was the notion that this would be easy. “Disappear in a month”, he said. That’s hyperbole but I should have ignored it and focused on the argument.

    The part that most people latched on to, including me, was the notion that making something illegal can stop it from happening. As many pointed out, history has taught us that this doesn’t work many times. The war on drugs. Alcohol prohibition. The list goes on.

  • Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet

    So I thought, why not let a cousin who lives out in a rural area try it out while I figure out what to do about mounting 'Dishy' (a common nickname for the Starlink satellite dish) on my own house?

    After all, my cousin Annie, who lives in Jonesburg, MO, currently pays for the maximum available DSL plan to her farm (Haarmann Farms), and gets a measly 5 Mbps down, and 0.46 Mbps up—on a good day: [...]

  • Facebook ‘knew about phone number data leak vulnerability two years before issue was fixed’, claims security researcher

    As Facebook defends its actions over a massive data leak, one researcher says he notified the company of the issue a full two years before the problem was fixed.

    Last week, Business Insider revealed that the personal data of more than 500 million Facebook users had been posted in a low-level hacking forum where phone numbers were being offered for sale.

    Facebook has defended itself in a lengthy blog post, pointing out that the data was obtained by scraping, rather than [cracking].

  • Facebook says [crackers] 'scraped' data of 533 million users in 2019 leak

    The data included phone numbers, birth dates, and email addresses, and some of the data appeared to be current, according to US media reports.

    The stolen [sic] data did not include passwords or financial data, according to Facebook.

    Scraping is a tactic that involves using automated software to gather up information shared publicly online.

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