This post was originally published on 14 June 2022. Update 5 September 2022 ENCSecurity has updated it’s ENCDataVault software to fix these issues – so now I can update and resume using my portable SanDisk USB drive. Update for ENCDataVault Software – ENC Security Help Center (zendesk.com) Watch out for …
Air gapping – not as secure as you think – enter Gairoscope and EtherLED
I have reported on other air gap exploits by Mordechai Guri, from Ben-Gurion University in Israel – here are two more ways that the secure air gapped system can be exploited: GAIROSCOPE: Injecting Data from Air-Gapped Computers to Nearby Gyroscopes (arxiv.org) ETHERLED: Sending Covert Morse Signals from Air-Gapped Devices via …
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Facial recognition in the UK to track offenders
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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Facebook and Instagram tracking
Felix Krause, a privacy consultant and one time Google engineer has an article examining how Meta tracks users when they follow links from Meta websites using the iOS apps: iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause (krausefx.com) …
The money involved in ransomware
Research has shown that payments to threat actors, demanded by ransomware, has dropped, but the double action of stealing the data and threatening exposure and encrypting that data at source is increasing: Ransom payments fall as fewer victims choose to pay hackers (bleepingcomputer.com) This next story wasn’t really surprising, that …
