The New Oil

July 7, 2020


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The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2020 So Far

https://www.wired.com/story/worst-hacks-breaches-2020-so-far/

Unsecured Chinese companies leak users’ sensitive personal and business data

https://cybernews.com/security/unsecured-chinese-companies-leak-users-sensitive-personal-and-business-data/

Facebook admits to improperly giving user data to third-party developers, again

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-gave-users-data-5000-third-party-developers/

How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

WhatsApp to Suspend Processing Law-Enforcement Requests for User Data in Hong Kong

https://archive.is/AS2Yq#selection-2029.5-2029.87

Telegram to temporarily refuse data requests from Hong Kong courts amid security law ‘terrorism’ fears

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/05/exclusive-telegram-to-temporarily-refuse-data-requests-from-hong-kong-courts-amid-security-law-terrorism-row/

Indian Government Bans DuckDuckGo

https://crackerscreed.org/indian-government-bans-duckduckgo-how-to-get-it-back/

China Uses Android Malware To Spy On Ethnic Minorities Worldwide, New Research Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler/2020/07/06/china-uses-android-malware-to-spy-on-ethnic-minorities-worldwide-new-research-says/#75f672f062a9

Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers from genetic data

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/florida-becomes-first-state-to-enact-dna-privacy-law-blocking-insurers-from-genetic-data

Yahoo engineer gets no jail time after hacking 6,000 accounts to look for porn

https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-engineer-gets-no-jail-time-after-hacking-6000-accounts-to-look-for-porn/

Fort Huachuca Police body cam footage easily accessible after an eBay purchase

https://www.azmirror.com/blog/fort-huachuca-police-body-cam-footage-easily-accessible-after-an-ebay-purchase/

Clearing "History" doesn't remove "Top Sites" in the homepage.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929

Domains visited get leaked to DDG servers

https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527

US Secret Service reports an increase in hacked managed service providers (MSPs)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-secret-service-reports-an-increase-in-hacked-managed-service-providers-msps/

Google removes 25 Android apps caught stealing Facebook credentials

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-25-android-apps-caught-stealing-facebook-credentials/

New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears

https://www.wired.com/story/new-mac-ransomware-thiefquest-evilquest/

Tails 4.8 is out

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.8/index.en.html

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/firefox_78_protections_dashboard_new/

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