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Coronavirus: https://www.businessinsider.com/poland-app-coronavirus-patients-mandaotory-selfie-2020-3 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-surveillanc/taiwans-new-electronic-fence-for-quarantines-leads-wave-of-virus-monitoring-idUSKBN2170SK https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-takes-step-monitoring-phones-virus-patients-69611060 https://www.wired.com/story/phones-track-spread-covid19-good-idea/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgkmz/iran-launched-an-app-that-claimed-to-diagnose-coronavirus-instead-it-collected-location-data-on-millions-of-people https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-singapore-to-make-contact-tracing-tech-open-source.html https://www.zdnet.com/article/brazil-introduces-surveillance-tech-to-slow-the-spread-of-coronavirus/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/16/malicious-covid-19-tracking-app-ransomware/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-19-response https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/princess-cruises-coronavirus-breach/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hack-exclusive-idUSKBN21A3BN https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hackers-hijacking-home-routers-to-direct-people-to-malicious-coronavirus-app/ https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/03/19/covid-19-impact-as-retailers-close-their-doors-hackers-open-for-business/ https://www.pcmag.com/news/while-us-fights-covid-19-83-of-healthcare-systems-run-outdated-software https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/27/apple-launches-covid-19-screening-website/

Companies: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/12/data-of-millions-of-ebay-and-amazon-shoppers-exposed/ https://brave.com/google-internal-data-free-for-all/ https://brave.com/binance/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-blocks-third-party-cookies-in-safari/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-ios-bug-blocks-vpns-from-encrypting-all-traffic/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/23/windows-unpatched-zero-day-bug/

Research https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-lets-advertisers-get-a-list-of-all-your-apps-and-this-api-feature-is-broadly-used/ https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/google-play-store-played-again-tekya-clicker-hides-in-24-childrens-games-and-32-utility-apps/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloud-leak-exposes-425gb-financial/ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/13/our-full-report-on-the-voatz-mobile-voting-platform/ https://blog.netlab.360.com/multiple-botnets-are-spreading-using-lilin-dvr-0-day-en/

Politics https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/aadhaar-national-social-registry-database-modi_in_5e6f4d3cc5b6dda30fcd3462 https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/03/21/blow-to-bitcoin-as-russia-moves-to-effectively-ban-crypto/#2b7884e55c63

Misfits http://quickcyber.news/2020/03/21/a-massive-database-of-more-than-5-billion-leaked-records-was-exposed-online/ https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/sim-highjackers-how-criminals-are-stealing-millions-highjacking-phone-numbers https://www.zdnet.com/article/rare-badusb-attack-detected-in-the-wild-against-us-hospitality-provider/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/dark-web-hosting-provider-hacked-again-7600-sites-down/ #coronavirus #news #privacy