av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 6, 2019 | Lästips
For to dager siden sa den kinesiske ambassaden at Kina respekterer Norges «suverenitet og nasjonale sikkerhet». Nå avslører granskere omfattende cyberangrep på norske Visma.Det norske programvareselskapet Visma skal ha vært et av minst tre selskaper som har blitt angrepet i et omfattende cyberangrep fra kinesisk etterretning.Det melder Visma i en pressemelding. Reuters omtalte saken først.
Statsfinansiert hackergruppe
Det amerikanske cybersikkerhetsselskapet Recorded Future mener det har avdekket en datainnbruddskampanje mot amerikanske og europeiske selskaper utført av den statsfinansiert kinesiske hackergruppen APT10.Gruppen skal ha peilet seg inn på minst tre selskaper i USA og Europa i perioden november 2017 til september 2018.Visma bekrefter at selskapet var et av dem som ble angrepet.
Källa: Granskere: Visma utsatt for datainnbrudd av kinesisk etterretning
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 5, 2019 | Lästips
Axios har kommit över Trumps arbetsscheman för de tre senaste månaderna och de visar hur den amerikanske presidenten jobbar. Inga möten före 11 och massor av det som kallas exekutiv tid.
Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in ”Executive Time”
A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump’s private schedule for the past three months.
Why it matters: This unusually voluminous leak gives us unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules, whoch cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured ”Executive Time.”
Källa: Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in ”Executive Time”
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 31, 2019 | Lästips
IF AN APP on Facebook behaved the way Facebook has been behaving, Facebook would probably have shut it down by now.
Tuesday’s scathing TechCrunch investigation all but guarantees it. The report found that Facebook has been paying people as young as 13 years old to download an app that grants Facebook access to users’ entire phone and web history, including encrypted activity and private messages and emails. The app, called Research, allows Facebook to see how people’s friends, who have not consented to having their data collected, interact with those users, too.
Källa: By Defying Apple’s Rules, Facebook Shows It Never Learns
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 31, 2019 | Lästips
Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges. We have opened up Thefacebook for popular consumption at Harvard University. You can use Thefacebook to: search for people at your school; find out who are [sic] in your classes; look up your friends’ friends; see a visualization of your social network.”
On 4 February 2004, this rather clunky announcement launched an invention conceived in the dorm room of a Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg, and intended to be an improvement on the so-called face books that US universities traditionally used to collect photos and basic information about their students. From the vantage point of 2019, Thefacebook – as it was then known – looks familiar, but also strange. Pages were coloured that now familiar shade of blue, and “friends” were obviously a central element of what was displayed. However, there was little on show from the wider world: the only photos were people’s profile pictures, and there was no ever-changing news feed.
Källa: Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 28, 2019 | Lästips
APNewsBreak: Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
Detta är den märkliga historien om forskare som upptäckt att israelisk spionprogramvara använts för att avlyssna kretsen runt den mördade saudiske journalisten Jamal Khashoggi. Efter det att forskarnas undersökning publicerats så har de bjudits in till möten med okända personer som försökt förhöra sug om deras verksamhet och de har övervakats av okända, hemliga agenter. Associated Press har publicerat historien.
NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s inner circle before his gruesome death are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives, The Associated Press has found. Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveillance and the details of their personal lives. In both cases, the researchers believe they were secretly recorded.
Källa: APNewsBreak: Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 25, 2019 | Lästips
The Intercept: Everybody Does It: The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply Chains
Nej, det handlar inte om Googles, Facebooks eller någon annans datainsamling. Det handlar om försök att ta sig in vid tillverkningen av våra prylar och få in spionageutrustning i dem. I första hand inte riktat mot privatpersoner utan det handlar om att få in avlyssningsutrustning i produkter som kan komma att an vändas av företaget, myndigheter och i sammanhang där det kan finnas ett direkt intresse från främmande makt.
The danger of China compromising hardware supply chains is very real, judging from classified intelligence documents, even if a Bloomberg story on the matter is highly disputed.
Källa: Everybody Does It: The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply Chains
