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ForkLog 17 07.11.2020

Ragnar Locker hits Capcom and Campari; Google launches its own VPN, and other cybersecurity headlines

We have gathered the week's most important cybersecurity news.

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ForkLog 14 29.10.2020

Study finds most DEX unsafe for users

Only two of the 25 considered decentralized exchanges (DEX), Uniswap and Synthetix, received the highest safety score. The scores of 14 of them were unsatisfactory. The rating is presented on Cer.Live — Hacken's cybersecurity company.

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ForkLog 14 26.10.2020

Trump’s Twitter hack, attacks on Russia’s defence complex, and other cybersecurity news

We have gathered the most important cybersecurity news from the past two weeks.

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ForkLog 8 10.10.2020

Paradigm hires renowned white-hat hacker Samczsun

The venture-capital firm Paradigm, focused on the cryptocurrency industry, has recruited a well-known white-hat hacker under the pseudonym Samczsun. Previously he helped identify various bugs and prevent tens of millions of dollars from landing in the hands of attackers operating in the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector.

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ForkLog 8 23.09.2020

Israeli startup Curv signs agreement with UAE crypto exchange.

Israeli startup Curv, a provider of security infrastructure for digital assets, has formed a partnership with UAE-based crypto trading platform and custodian HAYVN, according to Finance Magnates.

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ForkLog 11 18.09.2020

Twitter to bolster account security ahead of the U.S. presidential election

Twitter will boost security for some accounts ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

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Krzysztof Shpak 572 10.07.2020

Stalkerware Usage in on the Rise as Domestic Violence Rates Surge During Lockdown

The global deployment of spy and stalking applications has surged by as much as 51% since the world’s governments introduced the lockdown in March, 2020. Stalkerware is software or apps designed to monitor and track the target person’s location, intercept emails, messages, and eavesdrop on phone calls without the victim’s consent, among other things.

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Krzysztof Shpak 784 26.06.2020

Secure Identity Expert Explains How Cryptography Gives Us Power Over Personal Data

The ubiquitous digitization brings both the better ways of handling information and more opportunities for bad actors to exploit whatever we put online.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1298 25.06.2020

Eastern European Hacker Group Stole $200m From Crypto Exchanges via Supply-Chain Attack

Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky has detected that the so-called hacker group CryptoCore has managed to steal over $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges and companies in two years. For the most part, the threat actors—also named by ClearSky as Dangerous Password and Leery Turtle—have been targeting entities located in the United States and Japan.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1390 24.06.2020

Telegram User Data From Earlier Leaks Found on Dark Web, Contact Import Feature Is to Blame

A 900-megabyte database of Telegram users’ phone numbers, nicknames, and unique identifiers has been found posted on one of the forums on the dark web. The exact number of affected accounts isn’t known but estimated to be in the millions.

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Krzysztof Shpak 812 24.06.2020

Are RSA and Cryptocurrencies Safe Despite Quantum Computing Progress?

A large aerospace contractor Honeywell released a quantum computer that’s heralded as the highest-performing device of the kind to date. The company plans on using Microsoft Azure to make its devices commercially available to a wide audience. Yet, the technology is decades from being a threat to cryptography and the very claim of Honeywell’s device […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 2347 23.06.2020

How to Defend Yourself Against Scammers, Corporations, and Government: Hacker’s Perspective

This piece has been written by Jesse McGraw, an activist, writer, former hacker and first person in recent U.S. history convicted for corrupting industrial control systems

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