The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the most respected associations for the protection of privacy and digital rights, that fights since its beginnings against abuses of digital technologies, has published a large article that takes stock of anti-pandemic tracking apps, with an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of this topic.

A lot of interesting links, this week: Ransonmware, new APT grops, new vulnerabilities and (as usual) some coronavirus-related news!

“I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.“— Isaac Asimov

Cybersecurity startup ZecOps discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhone and iPad devices during the analysis of a series of ongoing remote attacks that have targeted iOS users since at least January 2018.

D’oh! A lot of dataleaks!

A proof-of-concept remote code execution exploit for the Windows 10 “SMBGhost” vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) was developed and presented yesterday by Yuki Koike, a researcher by Ricerca Security.

As was the case in the past weeks, threat actors attempt to capitalize on coronavirus outbreak.

This week NASA, MIT and…d’oh! COVID-19, again!

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be – Chuck Palahniuk

The issue has been discovered by two developers, Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk.