by Lily Hay Newman | Mar 26, 2019 | News
In December, Mastercard announced that it was working to develop an international digital identity scheme which could be used as a flexible verifier for financial transactions, government interactions, or online services. The idea of a secure, decentralized, universal...
by Lily Hay Newman | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Today’s news that hackers put backdoors into thousands of Asus computers using the company’s own software update platform is a reminder of why supply-chain compromises are one of the scariest digital attacks out there.Attackers compromised Asus’s Live...
by Lily Hay Newman | Mar 22, 2019 | News
After being displaced by a natural disaster, survivors have a lot of pressing concerns. They may be dealing with health impacts, displacement, loss of property, and even grieving the deaths of loved ones. Through all of this, though, one worry that is probably not in...
by Lily Hay Newman | Mar 21, 2019 | News
At this point, it’s difficult to summarize all of Facebook’s privacy, misuse, and security missteps in one neat description. And it just got even harder. On Thursday, following a report by Krebs on Security, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management...
by Lily Hay Newman | Mar 20, 2019 | News
With more than 2 billion users, Android has a staggering number of devices to protect. But a “high-severity” bug that went undetected for more than five years—that attackers could exploit to spy on a user and gain access to their accounts—serves as a...
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