As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, states around the United States are starting to debut contact-tracing apps built on a Bluetooth-based system engineered by Apple and Google. But a coordinated national effort is noticeably missing, creating the potential for an opaque patchwork of state-specific apps that don't work well together.
At the same time, states are also rolling out manual contact tracing programs using trained volunteers, but scammers are piggybacking on these urgent public health efforts to send bogus SMS text messages that claim to be related to contact tracing and lure victims to click malicious links. If you don't already use a password manager, now is an excellent time to start in many ways.
On Thursday, the National Security Agency put out a warning that the notorious Russian hacking group Sandworm has been exploiting a known vulnerability in certain popular mail servers. Meanwhile, the confirmation of John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence is problematic given his lack of relevant experience and Trump sycophancy. And a jailbreak for the current version of iOS came out this week, delighting security researchers and hobbyists. It's one of the first of its kind in years, raising questions about whether iOS is entering a new era of jailbreaking thanks to more plentiful vulnerabilities.
In good news, the beleaguered internet security guardian Shadowserver ..
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