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

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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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/

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