Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
August 30 2021Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Doorknob
August 27 2021It’s pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Read moreDetails of the Recent T-Mobile Breach
August 27 2021Seems that 47 million customers were affected. Surprising no one, T-Mobile had awful security. I’ve lost count of how many times T-Mobile has been hacked.
Read moreInteresting Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
August 26 2021If you plug a Razer peripheral (mouse or keyboard, I think) into a Windows 10 or 11 machine, you can use a vulnerability in the Razer Synapse software —...
Read moreSurveillance of the Internet Backbone
August 25 2021
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
August 20 2021Interesting National Geographic article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
Read moreMore on Apple’s iPhone Backdoor
August 20 2021
In this post, I’ll collect links on Apple’s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links are here and here.
Apple says that hash collisions in its...
Read moreT-Mobile Data Breach
August 19 2021
It’s a big one:
As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers...
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Apple’s NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
August 18 2021
Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm — the one it’s using for client-side scanning on the iPhone — has been reverse-engineered.
Turns out it was already in iOS 14.3, and...
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