Japanese cryptocurrency exchange loses more than $500 million to hackers

Coincheck said that around 523 million of the exchange’s NEM coins were sent to another account around 3 a.m. local time (1 p.m. ET Thursday), according to a Google translation of a Japanese transcript of the Friday press conference from Logmi. The exchange has about 6 percent of yen-bitcoin trading, ranking fourth by market share Read more about Japanese cryptocurrency exchange loses more than $500 million to hackers[…]

Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro for Windows has a hardcoded password

A vulnerability has been identified in Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro. Sensitive data stored by Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro, including users’ Windows logon credentials, is encrypted using a weak algorithm, contains a hard-coded password, and is accessible to all users with local non-administrative access to the system it is installed in. Source: Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro Read more about Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro for Windows has a hardcoded password[…]

Heat Map Released by Fitness Tracker Reveals Location of Secret Military Bases

Strava which markets itself as a “social-networking app for athletes” publicly made available the global heat map, showing the location of all the rides, runs, swims, and downhills taken by its users, as collected by their smartphones and wearable devices like Fitbit. Since Strava has been designed to track users’ routes and locations, IUCA analyst Read more about Heat Map Released by Fitness Tracker Reveals Location of Secret Military Bases[…]

NASA’s Long Dead (since 2007) ‘IMAGE’ Satellite is Alive! – how satellite hunters go to work.

Over the past week the station has been dedicated to an S-band scan looking for new targets and refreshing the frequency list, triggered by the recent launch of the mysterious ZUMA mission. This tends to be a semi-annual activity as it can eat up a lot of observing resources even with much of the data Read more about NASA’s Long Dead (since 2007) ‘IMAGE’ Satellite is Alive! – how satellite hunters go to work.[…]

Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US-elections, US burns the Dutch source

The Cozy Bear hackers are in a space in a university building near the Red Square. The group’s composition varies, usually about ten people are active. The entrance is in a curved hallway. A security camera records who enters and who exits the room. The AIVD hackers manage to gain access to that camera. Not Read more about Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US-elections, US burns the Dutch source[…]