The FBI is fighting to keep the hack it used to break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters secret. It’s expected to tell the White House that the crack it used to unlock data on an should not go through a government review that could …
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Google is about to make it harder for Chrome extensions to collect your browsing data without letting you know about it, according to a new policy announced Friday.
Starting in mid-July, developers releasing Chrome extensions will have to comply with a new User Data Policy that governs how they collect, transmit and store private information. Extensions will have to encrypt personal and sensitive information, and developers will have to disclose their privacy policies to users.
Developers will also have to post a “prominent disclosure” when collecting sensitive data that isn’t related to a prominent feature. That’s important, because extensions have tremendous power to track users’ browsing habits and then use that for nefarious purposes.
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The SYNful Knock compromise of routers can implant software that creates backdoors to let attackers return over and over, a sophisticated endeavor that demonstrates the ingenuity of its creators, according to a member of the team that discovered the attack in the wild.
The software has features that enable it to stay hidden within networks so it can be updated and new attack modules can be downloaded for long periods of time, according to FireEye researchers.
“The impressive portion of the attack is the implant and not the delivery,” says Tony Lee, technical director at FireEye. “This sort of implant would take significant skills to produce and go undetected for so long.”
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China seen issuing eIDs soon to improve internet security
EJ Insight A promotional booth set up by China's Ministry of Public Security as it gears up to launch eID cards. Photos: www.cac.gov.cn, eid.cn. HomeWorldGreater China. Jun 10, 2015 3:02pm. China seen issuing eIDs soon to improve internet security. Chinese … |