The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution bars people from being forced to turn over personal passwords to police, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled this week.
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Exploit Kits are Slowly Migrating Toward Fileless Attacks
Three out of the nine exploit kits active today are using fileless attacks to infect victims.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/exploit-kits-are-slowly-migrating-toward-fileless-attacks/
Critical Flaws in VNC Threaten Industrial Environments
The open-source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) project, often found in industrial environments, is plagued with 37 different memory-corruption vulnerabilities - many of which are critical in severity and some of which could result in remote code execution (RCE). According to researchers at Kaspersky, they potentially affect 600,000 web-accessible servers in
https://threatpost.com/critical-flaws-vnc-industrial/150568/
Predicting People’s Driving Personalities
System from MIT CSAIL sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless. Could this help self-driving cars navigate in traffic?
http://news.mit.edu/2019/predicting-driving-personalities-1118
Cyberwarriors Lack Planning Tools. That Could Change
For six years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency worked on a program known as Plan X to help commanders plan and conduct cyber operations. The goal was for leaders to see the cyber environment just as they would the physical world. Now, the Air Force and the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office are continuing the program and have renamed it
https://www.fifthdomain.com/dod/2019/11/25/cyber-warriors-lack-planning-tools-that-could-change/
More Than 1 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed by Breach
T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor. The company alerted the affected customers but did not provide many details in its official account of the hack.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/22/more-than-1-million-t-mobile-customers-exposed-by-breach/
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks to GPS
The Department of Defense has weighed in against a proposal before the Federal Communications Commission to open the 1 to 2 Gigahertz frequency range-the L band-for use in 5G cellular networks. The reason: segments of that range of radio spectrum are already used by Global Positioning System signals and other military systems.
At DHS, an Exodus of Tech and Cyber Leaders
The rotating cast of officials in top tech and cyber jobs could hinder the department's ability to develop and execute a consistent digital strategy.
The RIPE NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
Today, at 15:35 (UTC+1) on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.
Bad News: ‘Unblockable’ Web Trackers Emerge. Good News: Firefox with uBlock Origin Can Stop It. Chrome, Not So Much
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/21/ublock_origin_firefox_unblockable_tracker/
