Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone Using Face or Fingerprint Scan

Can feds force you to unlock your iPhone or Android phone? ..."NO" A Northern California judge has ruled that federal authorities can't force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition—even with a warrant. The ruling came in the ca...

Government shutdown impacts .gov websites, puts Americans in danger

If you are in the United States, then you likely already know that we are on our 24th day of a government shutdown. While it is considered a "partial" shutdown, there are still plenty of government workers who are furloughed, which impacts the services they run—both online and off. Last week,...

Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week

A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week...

U.S. Government Shutdown Leaves Dozens of .Gov Websites Vulnerable

As the U.S. federal shutdown continues, dozens of U.S. government websites have been rendered either insecure or inaccessible due to expired transport layer security TLS certificates that have not been renewed. In fact, .gov websites are using more than 80 TLS certificates that have expired,...

Security Vulnerabilities in Cell Phone Systems

Good essay on the inherent vulnerabilities in the cell phone standards and the market barriers to fixing them. So far, industry and policymakers have largely dragged their feet when it comes to blocking cell-site simulators and SS7 attacks. Senator Ron Wyden, one of the few lawmakers vocal about...

Snowden’s Attorney Urges Canada to Take in Whistleblower Helpers (Part Two)

In our second part of Threatpost’s interview of lawyer Robert Tibbo, who represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, Tibbo describes the present day systematic harassment of families that sheltered Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013. Tibbo also describes how h...

Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...

Snowden’s Attorney Talks Govt Harrassment of Whistleblower Helpers (Part One)

Human rights lawyer Robert Tibbo represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled the United States to Hong Kong in 2013. Less publicized has been Tibbo’s work representing several families from the Hong Kong refugee community that welcomed Snowden into their...

Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on Physical Cyber Threats

Attacks on physical devices and infrastructure offer a new target for cyber crime, a new opportunity for espionage and even a few front in cyber war. Rather than exploit computers and their applications, the Internet of Things allows malicious actors to go after a whole new category of devices,...

‘Snowden Refugee’ Has No Regrets for Helping Whistleblower

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Refugee families located in Hong Kong that helped shelter Edward Snowden in 2013 are under crushing pressure to cooperate with local authorities or face deportation to their countries of origin, where they face an uncertain fate. However, despite years of what their lawyer call...

Vulnerability of the Android APP of Hunan Provincial People's Government with Ultra-rights Access (CNVD-2019-01346)

Hunan Provincial People's Government Android APP is the mobile portal of Hunan Provincial Government information disclosure, with news news, matters inquiries, matters applications, office query, service evaluation, payment services, logistics services, material upload, online reservation, office...

A week in security (December 17 – 23)

Last week on Labs we looked at Fuchsia OS as a possible alternative for Android, explained all the reasons why cybercriminals want to hack your phone, discussed a flaw in Twitter form that may have been abused by nation states, gave you a Christmas tech scams roundup, revealed why many online...

Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Cloud Platform for Smart Government Construction

River network is a key news website in Henan Province, is agreed by the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, approved by the State Council Information Office, in the integration of the province's news and information resources based on the Henan newspaper network, the...

Hacking Diplomatic Cables Is Expected. Exposing Them Is Not

Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered...

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: EcoStruxure Vulnerability: Open Redirect 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use this device as a platform to...

Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released information on Chinese government malicious cyber activity targeting global information technology IT service providers—such as managed service providers and cloud service providers—and their...

Teaching Cybersecurity Policy

Peter Swire proposes a a pedagogic framework for teaching cybersecurity policy. Specifically, he makes real the old joke about adding levels to the OSI networking stack: an organizational layer, a government layer, and an international layer...

gov.kg Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-712297 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| gov.kg Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden until...

Hackers bypassed Gmail & Yahoo’s 2FA to target US officials

By Waqas The attack was carried out by Iran-backed charming kitten hackers and victims include dozens of US government officials. Private emails of US sanctions officials and nuclear scientists have been breached by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. As per the data obtained by Certfa, a...

Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with...