US Blacklists NSO Group
November 4 2021The Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer — and human rights violator, and probably war criminal — NSO Group has been added to the US Department of Commerce’s trade blacklist. US...
Read moreUsing Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands
November 3 2021It turns out that it’s surprisingly easy to create a fake Harvard student and get a harvard.edu email account. Scammers are using that prestigious domain name to shill...
Read moreOn Cell Phone Metadata
November 2 2021Interesting Twitter thread on how cell phone metadata can be used to identify and track people who don’t want to be identified and tracked.
Read moreHiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code
November 1 2021Really interesting research demonstrating how to hide vulnerabilities in source code by manipulating how Unicode text is displayed. It’s really clever, and not the sort of attack one...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Game Has a Cryptocurrency
October 29 2021In what maybe peak hype, Squid Game has its own cryptocurrency. Not in the fictional show, but in real life. As usual, you can also use this squid post to...
Read moreMore Russian SVR Supply-Chain Attacks
October 28 2021Microsoft is reporting that the same attacker that was behind the SolarWinds breach — the Russian SVR, which Microsoft is calling Nobelium — is continuing with similar supply-chain...
Read moreHow the FBI Gets Location Information
October 27 2021Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.
Read moreNew York Times Journalist Hacked with NSO Spyware
October 25 2021Citizen Lab is reporting that a New York Times journalist was hacked with the NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus, probably by the Saudis. The world needs to do something about these...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Eating Maine Shrimp
October 22 2021Squid are eating Maine shrimp, causing a collapse of the ecosystem. This seems to be a result of climate change.
Maine’s shrimp fishery has been closed for nearly a...
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