Your car is worth a lot of money. Car manufacturers are getting better at using the data from your trips to improve their products. Cars can produce up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour, according to one analysis. Your car could be the next national security threat if companies are able to mine this data. The Chinese town of Beidaihe bannedTeslas from its streets as the country's Communist party leaders gathered in the area. There is a chance that the cars could reveal sensitive information about China's most senior figures.
Mobile providers in Germany are testing a way to serve up personalized advertising on peoples' phones. The trial of TrustPid uses pseudo-anonymous token based on people's internet addresses to show personalized product suggestions. Supercookies are used to track people without their permission. Privacy advocates think the system is a step too far. Privacy researcher Wolfie Christl told WIRED that companies that operate communication networks shouldn't track their customers.
We rounded up the critical updates that came out in June in other stories this week. There are at least 80 targets that have been compromised by the new ZuoRAT software.
That is not the only thing. There is a rundown of the big security news that we haven't been able to cover. To read the full story, click on the headline. Stay safe out there.
The Firearms Dashboard portal was created to improve transparency around the sale of weapons. New data was added on June 27 and it turned out to be a disaster. More than 10 years of gun owner information was exposed by the California Department of Justice during the planned publication of new information. The names, dates of birth, genders, races, driver's license numbers, addresses, and criminal histories of people who were granted or denied permits for concealed and carry weapons were included in the data breech. California's justice department said financial information and Social Security numbers weren't included in the data hack.
While the spreadsheet was online for a short period of time, an initial investigation shows that it was more widespread than first thought. The Californian DOJ said in a press release that other parts of its gun databases were also affected. The department said that it is investigating what information could have been exposed in the incident. Some of the potentially impacted information came as a surprise to the sheriff's office.
Lawyers and their clients have been the targets of Indian hacker-for-hire groups for the better part of a decade, according to a report. According to the report, at least 75 US and European companies have been targeted by hacking groups in the last seven years, which is partly based on a trove of 80,000 emails sent by Indian hackers over the previous seven years. The investigation shows how hack-for-hire groups operate and how private investigators use their ruthlessness. Dozens of domain names belonging to hack-for-hire groups in India, Russia, and the U.A. were made public by the Threat Analysis Group.
Companies, government bodies, and universities have been targeted by the Chinese hacking group. According to Mandiant, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Norway are some of the countries that have been hit byAPT40 An investigation by the Financial Times found that Chinese university students were tricked into working for a company that was linked to the hacking group. 140 potential translators were identified by the newspaper as having applied to jobs at a company that was named in a US Department of Justice indictment. The job applicants were asked to translate sensitive US government documents and appeared to have been drawn into a life of espionage, according to the story.
The country's efforts to evade international sanctions and bolster its nuclear weapons program led to the theft of $400 million in digital currency. According to investigators, the theft of around $100 million in currency from the bridge was linked to North Korean actors. According to Elliptic, there are strong indications that the Lazarus Group may have been involved in the hacking incident. Recent years have seen a string of attacks againstBlockchain bridges. The crash of the digital currency has wiped millions of dollars from North Korea's heists.
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