US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable code in the mail and confirms identity and confirms correct ballot...

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. A registered voter receives a computer readable code in the mail and confirms identity and confirms correct ballot...

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

Yesterdays piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any other convicted cybercriminal. Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison...

PT-2020-21927

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions uWS affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a crash caused by the use of an uninitialized value. The crash occurs in the us internal dispatch ready poll function, which is called by us loop run and ultimately by...

US-Cert warns of North Korean BLINDINGCAN malware

By Zara Khan The malware variant ensued by the North Korean threat actors is called BLINDINGCAN. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US-Cert warns of North Korean BLINDINGCAN malware...

Defrauding the US Military: $379 million lost in 5 years to scams

By Sudais Asif The most successful scams targeting both in-service and retired US military veterans were... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Defrauding the US Military: $379 million lost in 5 years to scams...

US Secret Service used ‘Locate X’ to track user location without warrant

By Zara Khan Locate X collects location data from smartphone apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Secret Service used Locate X to track user location without warrant...

US claims disrupting 3 cryptocurrency campaigns run by terror groups

By Sudais Asif A total of 300 cryptocurrency accounts, 4 websites, and 4 Facebook pages with... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US claims disrupting 3 cryptocurrency campaigns run by terror groups...

TikTok Surreptitiously Collected Android User Data Using Google-Prohibited Tactic

TikTok has been collecting unique identifiers from millions of Android devices without their users’ knowledge using a tactic previously prohibited by Google because it violated people’s privacy, new research has found. Click to register! The app concealed the practice, which can track users onlin...

US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps

By Zara Khan AUS government contractor 'Anomaly Six' has location tracking software hidden in more than 500 mobile apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps...

Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides...

SBA phishing scams: from malware to advanced social engineering

A number of threat actors continue to take advantage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic through phishing scams and other campaigns distributing malware. In this blog, we look at 3 different phishing waves targeting applicants for Covid-19 relief loans. The phishing emails impersonate the US Smal...

A week in security (August 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, on our Lock and Code podcast, we talked about identity and access management technology. We also wrote about business email compromises to score big, discussed how the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020 looks beyond consent, and we analyzed how the...

How much does a data breach cost? + How to prevent it (Best practices)

By Waqas By some estimates, close to 30 percent of businesses in the United States will experience a data breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How much does a data breach cost? + How to prevent it Best practices...

How the US Can Prevent the Next 'Cyber 9/11'

In an interview with WIRED, former national intelligence official Sue Gordon discusses Russian election interference and other digital threats to democracy...

Online Shopping Alphaware 1.0 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Online Shopping Alphaware 1.0 - 'Edit Customer Account' Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Authenticated Exploit Author: Edo Maland Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14368/online-shopping-alphaware-phpmysql.html...

Online Shopping Alphaware 1.0 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Online Shopping Alphaware 1.0 - 'Edit Customer Account' Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Authenticated Date: 2020-8-4 Exploit Author: Edo Maland Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14368/online-shopping-alphaware-phpmysql.html Software Link:...

Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense DoD have identified a malware variant—referred as TAIDOOR—used by the Chinese government. In addition, U.S. Cyber Command has released the malware sample to the malwar...

TikTok is being discouraged and the app may be banned

In recent news retail giant Amazon sent a memo to employees telling them to delete the popular social media app TikTok from their phones. In the memo it stated that the app would pose a security risk without going into details. Later the memo was withdrawn without an explanation except that it wa...

Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills

Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn believes new proposed laws – the EARN IT Act and the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act – pose dire threats to cybersecurity and privacy. In this Threatpost interview, Pfefferkorn, who is associate director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford...