LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have impersonated a young female photographer on social media for more than a year, luring men working in industries strategically important to Tehran’s regional adversaries, according to research published Thursday.The so-called Mia Ash persona has been active on sites including LinkedIn, Facebook Inc (FB.O), WhatsApp and Blogger since at least April of last year, researchers at Dell SecureWorks said.

The campaign showed Iran engaged in a social engineering plot to ensnare its targets with a ”honey pot”, a classic espionage trap often involving seduction, more commonly used by criminal hackers.

ANALYS · Efter att det blivit känt att Maria Ågren bötfälts för att ha röjt sekretessbelagda uppgifter kunde jag och mina kollegor på SVT Nyheter som första nyhetsredaktion avslöja att det handlade om en stor dataupphandling.Transportstyrelsen hade gjort känsliga uppgifter tillgängliga för tekniker som inte var säkerhetsklassade i Östeuropa.Vid lunch torsdagen den 6 juli larmade en av de tjänster som vi på redaktionen har för att bevaka myndigheters diarium. Maria Ågren, den tidigare generaldirektören på Transportstyrelsen hade bötfällts. Hon hade varit ovarsam med hemliga uppgifter stod det.Då började ett intensivt arbete med att ta reda på vad som hade hänt. Tack vare hemliga källor med god insyn kunde vi avslöja att det handlade om den stora IT-affär som Transportstyrelsen gjorde 2015.

MILAN (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Milan have launched a probe into a data breach at UniCredit (CRDI.MI) affecting around 400,000 customers of the Italian bank, judicial sources said on Wednesday.Italy’s postal police, whoch specialize in digital crimes, is conducting the investigation whoch does not yet target any specific individuals, the sources said.

I hate to break it to you, but if you’ve worn a pair of Apple EarPods or AirPods recently, you were tacitly supporting the Empire – you know, that military group from Star Wars that tried to control the universe through fear and exploitation. In what has to be one of the strangest conversations about the mash-up of Apple and Star Wars, well, ever, Apple design lead Jony Ive told Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams that his primary inspiration for Apple’s iconic in-ear headphones were none other than Stormtroopers. This strange tidbit of information appeared in an interview in The Wall Street Journal where Ive was describing his design inspirations over the years. Crazy as it sounds, however, it sort of makes sense.

A mysterious piece of malware that gives attackers surreptitious control over webcams, keyboards, and other sensitive resources has been infecting Macs for at least five years. The infections—known to number nearly 400 and possibly much higher—remained undetected until recently and may have been active for almost a decade.FURTHER READINGNewly discovered Mac malware found in the wild also works well on LinuxPatrick Wardle, a researcher with security firm Synack, said the malware is a variant of a malicious program that came to light in January after circulating for at least two years. Dubbed Fruitfly by some, both malware samples capture screenshots, keystrokes, webcam images, and information about each infected Mac. Both generations of Fruitfly also collect information about devices connected to the same network. After researchers from security firm Malwarebytes discovered the earlier Fruitfly variant infecting four Macs, Apple updated macOS to automatically detect the malware.

SOMETIMES OUR SMARTPHONES are our friends, sometimes they seem like our lovers, and sometimes they’re our dope dealers. And no one, in the past 12 months at least, has done more than Tristan Harris to explain the complexity of this relationship. Harris is a former product manager at Google who has gone viral repeatedly by critiquing the way that the big platforms—Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram—suck us into their products and take away time that, in retrospect, we may wish we did not give. He’s also launched a nonprofit called Time Well Spent, whoch is devoted to stopping “tech companies from hijacking our minds.” Today, the TED Talk he gave last April was released online.