Both company announce the plans for the acquisition today. The private equity company Thoma Bravo plans to buy the UK-based cyber-security giant Sophos for $7.40 per share, for a total value of $3.9 billion, at a 37% market premium.
Category: Security & Privacy
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Safari in iOS sends data to Tencent
Engadget reports, that with iOS 13 Apple started checking website details against fraudulent behavior with Tencent. While Apple already uses “Google Safe Browsing” to improve security, this behavior has been difficult before. With the latest developments in Hong Kong and China, this approach is – at a minimum – questionable and overshadows trustworthiness of Apple hardware. Engadget comments accordingly:
You might not have to worry outside of China, but it’s still a concern.
Source: Safari in iOS sends some Safe Browsing data to Tencent
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What Gizmodo ‘Knows’ About Facebook
This Friday, Gizmodo accused Facebook of suppressing stories they published on their platform. The evidence is based on staff observations, including Family and Friends. All together, the allegations don’t appear to be very reliable, yet imaginable. Facebook acts weird all too often, and in this case Gizmodo claims the case was about news over Mark Zuckerberg, the companies CEO.
Mark Zuckerberg On Friday, Gizmodo uncovered shocking new evidence that Facebook is using its platform to suppress stories about CEO Mark Zuckerberg… or maybe his janky, busted-ass website is just bugging out again for no reason. It’s hard to say, really. That’s sort of the problem.
Gizmodo, Friday Oct. 4, 2019Unrelated to these new findings, Facebook has plenty of other issues, that should make them a company not to work with. The incident, and the pure possibility such a case of influence is possible, is another indicator to why society develops fear over Big Tech. The answer once more may be another call to #deleteFacebook, however, as long as Facebook has the reach and the attention, this won’t change.
Source: What We ‘Know’ About Facebook
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Datenschutz heute.
Verhüten ist einfach!
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Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy’
Google announced they built a 53 qubit quantum computer. A usecase Quantum computers are popular for is factorizing products of large prime numbers, making them interesting in the field of Cryptography. With 53 qubits, Google increased the possible performance by a factor
via fortune.com
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Patientendatenreichtum
Der Bayerische Rundfunk hat zusammen mit Propublika Million von Datensätzen von Patienten im Internet gefunden. Offenbar sind medizinische Untersuchungsberichte und Röntgenbilder, zusammen mit personenbezogenen Daten ungeschützt auf Servern auffindbar gewesen. Im wesentlichen geht es wohl um US Patienten, aber 13.000 Betroffene in Deutschland sind immer noch sportlich.
Wenn Daten das neue Öl sind, dann ist das so ein Ölteppich.
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Facebook lost phone numbers
Again, it’s Facebook, that made news with a data breach. TechCrunch reported first about midnight Euroean time, but it’s all over the news by today, noon. It’s time to realize social media is a mistake.
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@Jack was hacked
Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap. @Jack was hacked. Wired has a story how it happened. TL;DR: Sim Swap is an attack that allows intercepting the 2nd factor for authentication, when using SMS to a cellphone.
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Specification of DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections
While a lot of people debate DNS-over-https (and it’s dependencies), IETF has a specification for DNS-over-QUIC on it’s standards track.
This document describes the use of QUIC to provide transport privacy for DNS. The encryption provided by QUIC has similar properties to that provided by TLS, while QUIC transport eliminates the head-of-line blocking issues inherent with TCP and provides more efficient error corrections than UDP. DNS over QUIC (DNS/QUIC) has privacy properties similar to DNS over TLS specified in RFC7858, and performance similar to classic DNS over UDP.
Source: Specification of DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections