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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Krebs on Security

Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. Neither August nor Chirp Systems responded to requests for comment. ” Last year, the U.S.

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Details of Google going against Glupteba Botnet Operators

CyberSecurity Insiders

In December 2021, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered the intense activities being conducted by Glupteba Botnet on the internet and filed a lawsuit in a district court of New York. Google won the lawsuit against two Russian nationals who were found guilty in operating the said botnet network.

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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Malwarebytes

Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, for harvesting the facial recognition data of millions of Texan residents—for a decade. Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday in the state’s Harrison County District Court.

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Google files lawsuit against blockchain botnet operators

CyberSecurity Insiders

Google has made an official announcement that it has filed a lawsuit against a blockchain on botnet operators to pressurize Russian government to take stringent action against cyber criminals operating from its region. Wonder how much pressure will such lawsuits put on the Putin led government…?

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Facebook suspends Facial Recognition Program and deletes over 1bn face prints

CyberSecurity Insiders

From now on, the Mark Zuckerberg’s led company faced a lawsuit against its facial recognition related data collection early this year. The social media giant was found using the new tech to help tag people assisting blind and the visually impaired people in meeting their loved ones in near future.

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Google won a lawsuit against the Glupteba botnet operators

Security Affairs

Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. ” The IT giant won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the botnet, the court’s ruling sets an important legal precedent in the fight against cybercrime. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A week in security (March 1 – 7)

Malwarebytes

Source: Horti Daily) A federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. (Source: The Hacker News) Horticulture is an interesting sector for hackers since it is at the forefront of modern technologies.