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Google’s Android hacking contest fails to attract exploits

Six months ago, Google offered to pay US$ 200,000 to any researcher who could remotely hack into an Android device by knowing only the victim’s phone number and email address. No one stepped up to the challenge.

While that might sound like good news and a testament to the mobile operating system’s strong security, that’s likely not the reason why the company’s Project Zero Prize contest attracted so little interest. From the start, people pointed out that $ 200,000 was too low a prize for a remote exploit chain that wouldn’t rely on user interaction.

“If one could do this, the exploit could be sold to other companies or entities for a much higher price,” one user responded to the original contest announcement in September.

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FTC Complains D-Link Fails to Properly Secure Routers, IP Cameras – eWeek


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FTC Complains D-Link Fails to Properly Secure Routers, IP Cameras
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DAILY VIDEO: FTC claims D-Link routers and IP cameras are leaving consumers at risk; Microsoft introduces Azure cloud-based Connected Vehicle Platform; Google to integrate digital assistant technology with Android TVs; and there is more.
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White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election

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Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

The 13-page report, which was jointly published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, billed itself as an indictment of sorts that would finally lay out the intelligence community’s case that Russian government operatives carried out hacks on the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Clinton Campaign Chief John Podesta and leaked much of the resulting material. While security companies in the private sector have said for months the hacking campaign was the work of people working for the Russian government, anonymous people tied to the leaks have claimed they are lone wolves. Many independent security experts said there was little way to know the true origins of the attacks.

Sadly, the JAR, as the Joint Analysis Report is called, does little to end the debate. Instead of providing smoking guns that the Russian government was behind specific hacks, it largely restates previous private-sector claims without providing any support for their validity. Even worse, it provides an effective bait and switch by promising newly declassified intelligence into Russian hackers’ “tradecraft and techniques” and instead delivering generic methods carried out by just about all state-sponsored hacking groups.

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News in brief: Pi bakes in security; net neutrality fears; Rule 41 delay fails – Naked Security


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News in brief: Pi bakes in security; net neutrality fears; Rule 41 delay fails
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The people behind the Raspberry Pi, the cheap and cheerful computer that powers countless homebrew projects from smart doorbells to tweeting catflaps, have released a security update to the customised operating system based on Linux to thwart would-be …

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