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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

April 15, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, august.com, chirp systems, Latest Warnings, matt brown, ProPublica, realpage inc., Security Tools, u.s. cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:51:17 +0000

The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc., is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.

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Tampa Bay Times hit with Ryuk ransomware attack

January 24, 2020 admin chicago tribune, CrowdStrike, dch health system, emotet, imperial county, imperial county california, lake city, lake city florida, Los Angeles Times, ProPublica, ransom, ransom.ryuk, ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, tampa bay times, tribune publishing, trickbot, Trojan.TrickBot, us coast guard

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:11:10 +0000

Florida newspaper The Tampa Bay Times suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack Thursday, making it the latest major victim of the notorious ransomware family that continues to rise in popularity.

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Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm

August 29, 2019 admin Brenna Sadler, data breaches, DDS Safe, Digital Dental Record, PerCSoft, ProPublica, Wisconsin Dental Association

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:59:11 +0000

PerCSoft, a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack.

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Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot

March 20, 2019 admin advertising portal, Aela Callan, Australia, Australian, Brian Acton, Burmese, Business, cambridge analytica, CEO announcements, CLOUD Act, data breach, digital living room, digital town square, discrimination, discriminatory, E2E, Elliot Schrage, encryption, end-to-end encryption, ethnic cleansing, Facebook, FOSTA, Human rights, human rights violations, instagram, Jan Koum, Malwarebytes news, mark zuckerberg, messenger, Myanmar, net neutrality, Onava, privacy, ProPublica, Rohingya, Rohingya Muslim, SESTA, SESTA/FOSTA, Sheryl Sandberg, ultranationalist, unsend, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Facebook’s self-proclaimed pivot to privacy faces a fierce opponent—Facebook’s own history.

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You Can Now Download Information From Every Congressional Session Since 1973

August 31, 2017 admin bills, Congress, Data Data Everywhere, Legislation, ProPublica

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:15:43 +0000

ProPublica’s new bulk data set lets you download an entire legislative session at once.

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Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

August 30, 2017 admin Atlantic Council, Ben Nimmo, Colin Crowell, Daily Beast, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Donald Trump, Ed Summers, email bomb, Eric Uman, Jeff Larson, Joseph Cox, Kremlin, Lauren Kirchner, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Other, ProPublica, Twitter bots, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:59:49 +0000

I awoke this morning to find my account on Twitter (@briankrebs) had attracted almost 12,000 new followers overnight. Then I noticed I’d gained almost as many followers as the number of re-tweets (RTs) earned for a tweet I published on Tuesday. The tweet stated how every time I tweet something related to Russian President Vladimir Putin I […]