COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Using Bluetooth and Smartphones - ThreatWire

Published: April 14, 2020, 7:12 p.m.

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

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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.pdfhttps://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-challengeshttps://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216715/apple-google-coronavirus-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-details-usehttps://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-securityhttps://www.eff.org/document/section-230-not-brokenhttps://www.eff.org/document/eff-earn-it-act-first-amendment-letter-sjchttps://www.eff.org/document/earn-it-act-introducedhttps://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.pdfhttps://threatpost.com/dark_nexus-botnet-asus-dlink-routers/154571/https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/darknexus-iot-ddos-botnet.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/meet-dark_nexus-quite-possibly-the-most-potent-iot-botnet-ever/

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