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A lawsuit accusing Google of collecting data from users who are browsing the internet in “incognito mode” will go ahead. The suit, brought against the tech giant in June 2020, alleges that even when consumers turn off data collection in Chrome, their personal data is gathered by other Google tools. According to the complaint, “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data…

Leading information security event Infosecurity Europe will now take place July 13-15 2021 at London’s Olympia, organizer Reed Exhibitions has announced today (March 15). The news follows a statement made by the company on February 24 explaining that the event, originally due to take place June 8-10, would be delayed until later in the year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation. Today’s announcement outlined that Reed Exhibitions will be taking all the appropriate steps…

Ride-sharing giants Lyft and Uber have struck a data-sharing deal designed to protect passenger safety. The Industry Sharing Safety Program will for the first time enable the companies to view which drivers and delivery people have been deactivated from the other’s platform for serious safety incidents. These will relate to the five most serious safety incidents described by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s (NSVRC) Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Violence Taxonomy, including sexual assault and…

The CEO of a Canadian encrypted comms provider has been indicted by a federal grandy jury for allegedly helping organized drug traffickers to hide their communications from law enforcers. An indictment returned on Friday means arrest warrants have been issued for Sky Global boss, Jean-Francois Eap, and former distributor Thomas Herdman. They are charged with conspiracy to violate the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). According to the indictment, Sky Global made hundreds…

Security experts uncovered a new kind of phishing campaign in which threat actors are using newly crafted malware written in a rare programming language to evade security detection. Researchers from Proofpoint found a cybercriminal group tracked as “TA800” distributing malware dubbed as “NimzaLoader.” The attackers used reverse engineering techniques to trick users and pilfer their sensitive data online. NimzaLoader Malware Proofpoint researchers stated that the TA800 group previously used BazaLoader malware, but from February 2021, the group has been…

The number of global exploit attempts targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers has risen sixfold over the past few days, as Microsoft warned of a new ransomware threat to compromised systems. Check Point Research has been monitoring the situation since Microsoft released out-of-band patches for four zero-day bugs back on March 3. Reports began emerging that a Chinese state-backed group dubbed Hafnium was behind attacks in the wild exploiting the flaws. Then global attacks ramped-up massively,…

Craig Young, Principal Security Researcher at Tripwire, unpacks the modern security researcher’s toolkit to reverse engineer complex designs. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Tim Erlin: Welcome everyone to the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast. I’m Tim Erlin, vice-president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. Today, I am joined by one of our security researchers, Craig Young. Craig Young: Thank you for having me. It’s a pleasure to be here with you. On the Basics of Reverse…