August 04, 2020

Rite Aid Used Facial Recognition Cameras; BootHole Hits GRUB2 - ThreatWire

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Three have been arrested for the twitter hack, the BootHole vulnerability creates bigger problems, and Rite Aid used facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores! All that coming up now on ThreatWire. #threatwire #hak5

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Twitter Hack:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348974/twitter-spear-phishing-attack-bitcoin-scam

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/twitter-hackers-used-phone-spear-phishing-in-mass-account-takeover/

https://threatpost.com/twitter-hack-mobile-spearphishing-scam/157896/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arrest-florida-teen-fbi-irs-secret-service

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-individuals-charged-alleged-roles-twitter-hack

https://thehackernews.com/2020/07/twitter-hacker-arrested.html

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/florida-teen-arrested-charged-with-being-mastermind-of-twitter-hack/

BootHole:

https://thehackernews.com/2020/07/grub2-bootloader-vulnerability.html

https://threatpost.com/billions-of-devices-impacted-secure-boot-bypass/157843/

https://securityledger.com/2020/07/boothole-bootloader-flaw-breaks-security-on-most-linux-windows-devices/

https://eclypsium.com/2020/07/29/theres-a-hole-in-the-boot/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/boothole-attack-impacts-windows-and-linux-systems-using-grub2-and-secure-boot/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-distros-fix-new-boothole-bug/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/boothole-fixes-causing-boot-problems-across-multiple-linux-distros/

Face masks are thwarting surveillance / Rite Aid used facial recognition tech in stores:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/#riteaid-methodology

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/rite-aid-deployed-facial-recognition-in-hundreds-of-stores-report-finds/

https://threatpost.com/facial-recognition-flop-face-masks-thwart-virus-stump-security-systems/157821/

https://www.cnet.com/news/face-masks-are-thwarting-even-the-best-facial-recognition-algorithms-study-finds/

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