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Security News Update for the Week Ending September 23, 2022

Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 17, 2020

Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Abusing Clipboard Access Apple’s Universal Clipboard allows you to share data between devices. According to the lawsuit, LinkedIn reads the data without notifying the user. However, LinkedIn is not alone. More than 50 apps, apparently, do that. Now that they have been sued, they are changing their app. Credit: Reuters When […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 22, 2019

Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here).  Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension.  They […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending October 26, 2018

Poorly Secured Family of Adult Web Sites Leak Account Info For those people who can think back to the hack of the Ashley Madison web site, this is kind of deja vu all over again. 100 megabytes of user authentication data was leaked – user names, IP addresses, passwords and email addresses.  Not THE most […]

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Wendy’s, Cici’s, Twitter – The Attacks Keep Coming

In January 2015 Wendy’s disclosed, after many banks already announced, that it’s point of sale system was breached.  For months Wendy’s refused to provide any details, only saying that they were investigating things. In May, when it released it’s first quarter earnings report, it said that fewer than 300 restaurants  were compromised and all of […]

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