Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around The World

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/cheap-chinese-smartphones-malware

Preinstalled malware on low-cost Chinese phones has stolen data and money from some of the world’s poorest people.

Current security concerns about Chinese apps and hardware have largely focused on potential back doors in Huawei’s 5G equipment. More recently, people have focused on how user data collected by TikTok could be abused by the company and the Chinese government. But an overlooked and ongoing threat is the consistent presence of malware on cheap smartphones from Chinese manufacturers and how it exacts a digital tax on people with low incomes.

NHH utsatt for datainnbrudd – Over 300 studenter og ansatte rammet

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/08/06/nhh-utsatt-for-datainnbrudd-over-300-studenter-og-ansatte-rammet/

NRKs gjennomgang av datalekkasjen tilsier at over 300 studenter og ansatte er kompromittert.

Det skal ha skjedd etter et større internasjonal datainnbrudd som har påvirket flere hundre organisasjoner.
Ifølge teknologinettstedet ZDNet skal 900 VPN-servere være rammet.

After a breach, users rarely change their passwords, study finds - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-breach-users-rarely-change-their-passwords-study-finds/

Only a third of users changed their password following a data breach.

Most users who changed passwords chose a weak one

Qatar: Contact tracing app security flaw exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million - Amnesty International

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/qatar-covid19-contact-tracing-app-security-flaw/

If technology is to play an effective role in tackling the virus, people need to have confidence that contact tracing apps will protect their privacy and other human rights

A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/24/thai-billions-internet-records-leak/

real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.

“All of the data related to Internet usage patterns and did not contain personal information that could be used to identify any customer,” said the spokesperson.

But that isn’t true

EasyJet admits nine million customers hacked - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52722626

It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”.

Some ransomware rings have started stealing data before they encrypt to use stolen data as leverage, ensuring that even victims with backups make the payment - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/why-you-cant-bank-on-backups-to-fight-ransomware-anymore/

Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data - VICE

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation

An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found.

Avast

An unsecured facial-recognition database with info on thousands of children from 20 schools in China, half in areas with large Tibetan populations, found online - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-chinese-students-data-exposed-on-internet-11579283410

Filmet pasientene: Lå åpent ute på sykehusets interne nettsider i 10 måneder – NRK Finnmark – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio

https://www.nrk.no/finnmark/filmet-pasientene_-la-apent-ute-pa-sykehusets-interne-nettsider-i-10-maneder-1.14864408

Finnmarkssykehuset vurderer feilen som alvorlig, men har ikke varslet pasientene som ble overvåket ulovlig.

LifeLabs pays hackers to recover data of 15 million customers - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lifelabs-pays-hackers-to-recover-data-of-15-million-customers/

Data breach took place in early November, and hackers also gained access to 85,000 laboratory test results.

Medical images and health data, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, with names and birthdates, from 16M scans worldwide are available unprotected online — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet

One expert warned about it for years.

Når statens sikkerhetstiltak truer oss – NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/06/11/nar-statens-sikkerhetstiltak-truer-oss/

Et ondsinnet cyberangrep har ført til at en database fra den amerikanske Tolletaten kom på avveie. Hendelsen får meg til å lure: Hva skjer når informasjon myndighetene lagrer om oss kommer i hendene på ukjente?

Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18634842/google-passwords-plain-text-g-suite-fourteen-years

Only affects some G Suite customers

it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed. It’s resetting any passwords that might be affected

Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/

A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform

Kommune-Norge lekker informasjon om dine mest personlige nettbesøk – NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/05/02/disse-knappene-kan-avslore-om-du-soker-psykisk-helsehjelp/

At du besøker disse informasjonssidene deler Kristiansand kommune med det amerikanske IT-selskapet Oracle, noe de ikke opplyser om på sine personvernsider.

Docker Hub hack exposed data of 190,000 users - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-hub-hack-exposed-data-of-190000-users/

Docker Hub usernames, hashed passwords, GitHub and Bitbucket access tokens exposed in the hack.

Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords unencrypted - Recode

https://www.recode.net/2019/4/18/18485528/facebook-instagram-passwords-stored-unencrypted-security-issue

This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared.

Possible Toyota data breach affecting 3.1 million customers – Naked Security

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/02/possible-toyota-data-breach-affecting-3-1-million-customers/

Several Toyota companies have announced that they might have suffered data breach attempts

Tesla cars keep more data than you think, including this video of a crash that totaled a Model 3

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

Crashed Tesla vehicles, sold at junk yards and auctions, contain deeply personal and unencrypted data including info from drivers’ paired mobile devices