https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/03/digital-violence-nso-group-spyware/
The research reveals new links between phone hacks and real-world violence
For the first time, researchers have mapped all the known targets, including journalists, activists, and human rights defenders, whose phones were hacked by Pegasus, a spyware developed by NSO Group
https://www.nrk.no/urix/sverige_-hackere-krever-600-millioner-kroner-1.15564723
Angrepet har rammet hundrevis av selskaper over hele verden. Blant dem er svenske Coop, som har måttet stenge hundrevis av dagligvarebutikker, Apotek Hjärtat og SJ.
Kravet er blitt publisert på bloggen til hackergruppen Revil og virker ifølge eksperter autentisk.
Angrepet ble innledet fredag og var rettet mot det amerikanske programvareselskapet Kaseya, som selger tjenester til kunder over hele verden, deriblant Coop.
https://www.wired.com/story/french-spyware-executives-indicted-aiding-torture/
The managers are accused of selling tech to Libya and Egypt that was used to identify activists, read private messages, and kidnap, torture, or kill them.
https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hack-nfc-bugs-point-of-sale/
FOR YEARS, SECURITY researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible avenues to their innards, from opening a front panel and sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a hole that exposes internal wiring. Now one researcher has found a collection of bugs that allow him to hack ATMs—along with a wide variety of point-of-sale terminals—in a new way: with a wave of his phone over a contactless credit card reader.
Rodriguez has built an Android app that allows his smartphone to mimic those credit card radio communications and exploit flaws in the NFC systems’ firmware.
https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-breach-south-korean-submarine-builder-again/
The target of the attack was Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), one of the country’s three primary shipbuilding companies—together with Hyundai and Samsung—and the only submarine builder.
Sources said that some of the stolen files included plans for a nuclear-powered submarine that DSME and the South Korean Navy had been working on for the past few years.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline
Google keeps falling into the same cycle, […], one that has repeated itself throughout the years. It’ll build out new services, integrating them into more areas of its product lineup, then try to wipe the slate clean, launch new services that (eventually) replace the old set, and start the cycle anew.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/technology/computer-energy-use-study.html
The giant tech companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on social media and elsewhere.
Shutting off your Zoom camera or throttling your Netflix service to lower-definition viewing does not yield a big saving in energy use, contrary to what some people have claimed.
Even the predicted environmental impact of Bitcoin, which does require lots of computing firepower, has been considerably exaggerated by some researchers.
Those are the conclusions of a new analysis by Jonathan Koomey and Eric Masanet, two leading scientists in the field of technology, energy use and the environment.
Systemleverandøren Axiell vart denne veka hacka, som har lamma tenestene til mange lokalbibliotek.
Kring halvparten av alle bibliotek i Noreg er råka av hackinga. Dei store bybiblioteka har eigne system, og er ikkje råka.
Hackarane har bedt om løysepengar, men det er uvisst kva sum det er snakk om. Hillestad har ikkje gått i dialog med hackarane.
– Det er ikkje eit alternativ å betala ut løysepengar for å få tilgang til eigne data. Me samarbeider ikkje med kriminelle på nokon som helst måte.
Dei jobbar no med å få på plass ei backup-løysing, som skal vera klar til bruk frå neste veke av.