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- hyperoptic - Flawed routers with hardcoded passwords were manufactured by firm that posed “national security risk” to UK

Flawed routers with hardcoded passwords were manufactured by firm that posed “national security risk” to UK

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Earlier this month the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning to telecoms firms about the potential risks posed by devices manufactured by Chinese-state owned enterprise ZTE. “NCSC assess that the national security risks arising from the use of ZTE equipment or services within the context of the existing UK telecommunications infrastructure cannot be mitigated,” said Dr Ian Levy, technical director of the NCSC. At the same time, which is headquartered in the city of Shenzhen, was fined over one billion dollars and banned from importing American component for seven years, after illegally shipping telecoms equipment to Iran and North Korea in violation of regulations, and misleading the US Department of Commerce. In other words, ZTE is something of a controversial company, and not having the best of months. How does this affect the average user who may never have heard of ZTE? Well, this week it has been revealed that British customers of high-speed fibre broadb..
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- 5722351570 546a89f05c b 1024x682 1024x682 - Don’t give money to the “Chinese Consulate,” FTC says in scam-busting report

Don’t give money to the “Chinese Consulate,” FTC says in scam-busting report

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Scammers are using a combination of phishing techniques and social engineering to trick people with Chinese last names into handing over their personal information and even make direct payments to the scammer. The scheme isn’t new, with reports going back as early as 2015 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told phone carriers to start using robocall-blocking services. Now the Federal Trade Commission has had it too. A statement by the FTC said it has recently recorded a surge in complaints from customers claiming that scammers are purporting to call from the Chinese Consulate asking them for personal information and even cash. “People across the country have reported getting a call or message saying they have to pick up a package at the Chinese Consulate office,” reads the report. “Or, they need you to give them information to avoid being in trouble with the Chinese Consulate. Then the caller asks for your bank or credit card information, or tells you to make a bank tr..
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- profiles 800x420 - 48 million people put at risk after firm that scraped info from social networks left it exposed for anyone to download

48 million people put at risk after firm that scraped info from social networks left it exposed for anyone to download

data breach, data privacy, facebook, Social Networks, unsecured data
Chances are that you’ve never heard of Washington-based data firm LocalBlox. But that doesn’t mean that they haven’t heard of you. And it doesn’t mean that your personal information hasn’t been recklessly exposed through their sloppy disregard for the most basic security. As Zack Whittaker of ZDNet reports, Localblox scooped up information from the personal profiles of some 48 million users of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and real-estate site Zillow without their consent. The data LocalBlox collated included names, email addresses, dates of birth, postal addresses, and even – in some cases – individuals’ net worth. LocalBlox then consolidated that sensitive information into a single unencrypted file over 1.2 terabytes in size, and placed it on an Amazon S3 bucket. If you’ve been following past data breaches you can probably guess the worst part of this story – you didn’t need a password to access LocalBlox’s Amazon S3 bucket, meaning anybody in the world could ..
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- airplane airline flight - Alaskan airline hacker sentenced to 5 years’ probation

Alaskan airline hacker sentenced to 5 years’ probation

Industry News, insider threat, PanAir hack, VPN logs
A former employee of Alaskan regional airline PenAir has pleaded guilty to felony fraud associated with hacking attacks against the company’s ticketing and reservation system in the spring of 2017, announced the US Department of Justice. Suzette Kugler, 59, was sentenced to five years of probation and 250 hours of community service. After working for PanAir for almost 30 years, Kugler was “dissatisfied with the circumstances surrounding her departure.” As PanAir’s director of system support, she was in charge of administering the Sabre database system which was vital to ticketing and reservations. After she retired, Kugler used her knowledge of the database to create fake employee accounts. Assigned with high-level privileges, she used the accounts to destroy information and keep legitimate employees at eight airports from making any flight changes, including booking, ticketing or boarding flights. Research revealed Kugler actually started creating fake profiles in her last week of w..
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