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Deciphering Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller is a master of social engineering and possibly the witness protection identity of David Lightman from WarGames.

Podcast, Hacker Movies

Tracking By Any Name Is Still A Privacy Concern

Google and Apple are teaming up on a contact-tracing framework, but even with the privacy safeguards they have promised, there are still concerns over how this kind of data collection impacts user privacy.

Privacy, Surveillance

Keeping Up With Chrome, Firefox Browser Updates

Google and Mozilla have released multiple versions of their web browsers over the past few days to roll back certain features and to fix high-severity vulnerabilities.

Browser Security, Patching, Firefox, Google Chrome

RDP Drawing Unwanted Attention

The shift to remote work has caused a spike in the number of RDP servers exposed to the Internet, along with an increase in the number of scans for those servers.

RDP, Microsoft

Steal This Fingerprint

Research shows that attackers can bypass fingerprint sensors on some devices with as high as an 80 percent success rate.

Biometrics, 2fa