ZuoRAT Malware Is Targeting Routers
June 30 2022Wired is reporting on a new remote-access Trojan that is able to infect at least eighty different targets:
So far, researchers from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs say they’ve...
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Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
June 29 2022Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador’s 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden there. If you remember, Snowden was traveling from Hong...
Read moreWhen Security Locks You Out of Everything
June 28 2022Thought experiment story of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:
But to get into my cloud, I need my password and...
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I did not attend WEIS this year, but Ross Anderson was there and liveblogged all the talks.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Cubes
June 24 2022Researchers thaw squid frozen into a cube and often make interesting discoveries. (Okay, this is a weird story.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
Read moreEarlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space....
Read moreOn the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
June 23 2022Nadiya Kostyuk and Susan Landau wrote an interesting paper: “Dueling Over DUAL_EC_DRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process“:
Abstract: In recent decades, the U.S. National Institute of...
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Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
June 22 2022What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines....
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Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act; and S. 2710,...
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