The website of Taiwan’s Presidential Office was taken offline for roughly 20 minutes this past Tuesday, according to local reports, after being hit with a DDoS attack that saw site traffic exceed 200 times the normal amount. Taiwan Presidential Office website hit by ‘overseas’ DDoS attack by Ryan Morrison These rules are not being followed, the courts are not enforcing them, and as a result, each year tens of thousands of Americans are exposed to needless privacy violations.” Wyden’s letter comes in the wake of a recent report released by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which highlighted courts’ inconsistent privacy practices. According to Wyden, “Federal court rules - required by Congress - mandate that court filings be scrubbed of personal information before they are publicly available. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, pleaded with federal courts to address their long-lasting negligence of Americans’ personal data. Federal courts left Americans' data exposed, senator tells Supreme Court chief justice by Tonya Rileyĭemocratic Senator Ron Wyden out of Oregon, in a letter to U.S. According to researchers, a bad actor in possession of these Twitter authentication keys could perform any of the following actions:Īccording to BleepingComputer, a wide variety of applications between 50,000 and 500,000 downloads, “including city transportation companions, radio tuners, book readers, event loggers, newspapers, e-banking apps, cycling GPS apps, and more” have all been linked to the issue. Over 3,200 apps leak Twitter API keys, some allowing account hijacks by Bill ToulasĬybersecurity researchers at CloudSEK have uncovered that over 3,200 mobile apps are exposing Twitter API keys to the public, some of which could allow an account takeover by bad actors. Read all about these stories and more in this week’s Friday Five.ġ. New and dangerous scams are on the rise, your sensitive information may be at risk due to an unlikely party, and tensions between Taiwan and China look to be escalating.