Kiwi Stock Exchange DDoSed Again and Again (and Again) - Security Boulevard

Aotearoa Attack

NZX, the stock exchange in #NewZealand, has been suffering denial-of-service attacks for most of the week. The land of the long white cloud seems to have a powerful enemy. https://t.co/HzZPSPbzwp

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— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) August 28, 2020

Preinstalled mobile malware steals money in emerging markets - TechBeacon

Supply chain attack blamed

Smartphone users in emerging markets are being ripped off by suspiciously cheap handsets. Phones branded “@Tecnomobile”—made by Shenzhen Transsion Holdings—appear to be preinstalled with #malware. https://t.co/RI1HQO3lC5

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— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) August 27, 2020

Bridgefy FAIL: Insecure for Use in Protests - Security Boulevard

Feds Scoff At Your BT Mesh

Tale as old as time: @Bridgefy, a young naïve startup, builds quick and dirty app for use case A. Then many people use it for use case B, so the startup pivots to follow the market. https://t.co/OZDp090MFx

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— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) August 25, 2020

Uber ex-CISO Charged ‘Obstruction and Misprision,’ say DoJ/FBI - Security Boulevard

Sullivan Charged—is Kalanick Next?

Joe Sullivan, the former security honcho at @Uber, stands accused of obstructing justice and covering up a crime. It all stems from a cloud #security breach at Uber Technologies in 2016, which leaked the personal information of 57 million drivers.https://t.co/ie9r6jMVGU

— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) August 21, 2020

Secret Service dodges location-data warrants … there’s an app for that - TechBeacon

He’d let us in—knows where we’ve been

Law enforcement continues to buy private data from brokers. And investigative journalists continue to uncover these shocking truths. https://t.co/uoyUn7e5ZY

— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) August 20, 2020