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Lawmakers Ask FCC to Do Something About SIM Swapping

Criminals can bypass two-factor authentication and hijack user accounts by simply convincing a mobile carrier to swap SIM cards for a phone number. A group of Senators and Representatives are asking the FCC to protect consumers from these kinds of scams.

Government, Mobile Security

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Under Active Attack

Mozilla has released an emergency fix for a vulnerability in Firefox that attackers are actively exploiting.

Mozilla

MITRE Adds ICS-Specific Techniques to ATT&CK Framework

MITRE adds information about threat groups, malware, and techniques used by adversaries in attacks against industrial control systems in its ATT&CK framework.

Critical Infrastructure Security

SHA-1 ‘Fully and Practically Broken’ By New Collision

A chosen prefix collision in SHA-1 has demonstrated a new issue with the venerable hash function developed by the NSA.

Cryptography

Firefox to Allow Users to Delete Telemetry Data

As CCPA goes into effect, Mozilla is making a change that will allow people to request the deletion of any telemetry data collected by Firefox.

Privacy, Firefox