Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says June 25, 2020 | sento Addressing Pakistan’s National Assembly, Ghulam Sarwar Khan said 262 pilots in the country ‘did not take the exam themselves’ and had paid someone else to sit it on their behalf. Pakistan has 860 active pilots serving its domestic airlines — including the country’s Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flagship — as well as a number of… Read More
Amazon says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded June 25, 2020 | sento Amazon Web Services recently had to defend against a DDoS attack with a peak traffic volume of 2.3 Tbps, the largest ever recorded, ZDNet reports. Detailing the attack in its Q1 2020 threat report, Amazon said that the attack occurred back in February, and was mitigated by AWS Shield, a service designed to protect customers… Read More
Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI Hacked it June 24, 2020 | sento The developers of a privacy-focused operating system championed by Edward Snowden are scrambling to find out the details of a hack that the FBI used—and Facebook paid for—to unmask a child predator. Last week, Motherboard revealed that Facebook had paid six figures to a cybersecurity firm to develop a hacking tool that the company then… Read More
Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator June 24, 2020 | sento Facebook paid a cybersecurity firm six figures to develop a zero-day in Tails to identify a man who extorted and threatened girls. For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook. He extorted them for their nude pictures and videos, and threatened to kill and rape them.… Read More
Why the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app failed June 24, 2020 | sento Matt Hancock has had another app catastrophe. England’s planned contact tracing app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight and downloaded by tens of thousands of people, has been ditched in favour of a system developed by Google and Apple. The reversal, first reported by the BBC and later confirmed by the government,… Read More
BlueLeaks: Data from 200 US police departments & fusion centers published online June 22, 2020 | sento An activist group has published on Friday 296 GB of data they claim have been stolen from US law enforcement agencies and fusion centers. The data has been made available online on a searchable portal. According to the BlueLeaks portal, the leaked data contains more than one million files, such as scanned documents, videos, emails,… Read More
Honda pauses production and closes offices following ransomware attack June 10, 2020 | sento Honda’s global operations have been hit with a ransomware attack and the Japanese automaker is still working to get everything back online. The company said Tuesday that it had to temporarily shut down some production facilities, and its customer and financial services operations are closed. At this time Honda Customer Service and Honda Financial Services… Read More
Honda’s global operations hit by production impacting cyber-attack June 10, 2020 | sento Honda has said it is dealing with a cyber-attack that is impacting its operations around the world. It added that the problem was affecting its ability to access its computer servers, use email and otherwise make use of its internal systems. The firm – which makes motorcycles, cars, generators and lawn mowers, among other products… Read More
eBay-like auction site created for stolen data June 9, 2020 | sento The operators of the REvil ransomware have launched a new auction site used to sell victim’s stolen data to the highest bidder. REvil, otherwise known asSodinokibi, is a ransomware operation that breaches corporate networks using exposed remote desktop services,spam,exploits, andhacked Managed Service Providers. Once established on a network, they quietly spread laterally through the company… Read More
Wallpaper image crashing Android phones June 9, 2020 | sento A picture may be worth a thousand words, but apparently one image is worth potentially thousands of headaches for Android users recently. The noted tech information leaker Ice Universe this weekend posted a warning about an image that if set as wallpaper will soft-brick Samsung and Google Pixel phones. Soft-bricking triggers Android devices to continuously… Read More