COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Using Bluetooth and Smartphones - ThreatWire (Patreon)

ThreatWire 2020 04 14

Apple and Google want to track the virus using Bluetooth low energy, what is the EARN IT Act?, and the dark nexus botnet continues to grow! All that coming up now on ThreatWire. #threatwire #hak5 Links: Support me on alternative platforms! https://snubsie.com/support Shop ThreatWire Merch! - https://snubsie.com/shop https://www.youtube.com/shannonmorse -- subscribe to my tech channel! ThreatWire is only possible because of our Patreon patrons! https://www.patreon.com/threatwire Links: Google / Apple tracking: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/apple-and-google-detail-bold-and-ambitious-plan-to-track-covid-19-at-scale/ https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contact_Tracing_Using_BLE.pdf https://threatpost.com/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-privacy-fears/154689/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/ https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing/ https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/4/11/21216652/apple-google-contact-tracing-covid-19-coronavirus-api-public-health-app-challenges https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216715/apple-google-coronavirus-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-details-use https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-CryptographySpecification.pdf EARN IT: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/graham-blumenthal-bill-attack-online-speech-and-security https://www.eff.org/document/section-230-not-broken https://www.eff.org/document/eff-earn-it-act-first-amendment-letter-sjc https://www.eff.org/document/earn-it-act-introduced https://signal.org/blog/earn-it/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/senator-backing-anti-crypto-bill-calls-out-zooms-lack-of-end-to-end-crypto/ Dark Nexus: https://www.bitdefender.com/files/News/CaseStudies/study/319/Bitdefender-PR-Whitepaper-DarkNexus-creat4349-en-EN-interactive.pdf https://threatpost.com/dark_nexus-botnet-asus-dlink-routers/154571/ https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/darknexus-iot-ddos-botnet.html https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/meet-dark_nexus-quite-possibly-the-most-potent-iot-botnet-ever/ Photo credit: https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/man-checking-phone-with-mask-getty.jpg -----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆ Our Site → https://www.hak5.org Shop → https://www.hakshop.com Subscribe → https://www.youtube.com/user/Hak5Darren?sub_confirmation=1 Support → https://www.patreon.com/threatwire Contact Us → http://www.twitter.com/hak5 Threat Wire RSS → https://shannonmorse.podbean.com/feed/ Threat Wire iTunes → https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/threat-wire/id1197048999 Host: Shannon Morse → https://www.twitter.com/snubs Host: Darren Kitchen → https://www.twitter.com/hak5darren Host: Mubix → http://www.twitter.com/mubix -----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆-----☆