Browser Tracking Using Favicons
February 17 2021
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. (For those who don’t know, favicons are those tiny icons that appear in browser tabs next to the page name.)
Abstract:...
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Malicious Barcode Scanner App
February 16 2021
Interesting story about a barcode scanner app that has been pushing malware on to Android phones. The app is called Barcode Scanner. It’s been around since 2017 and...
Read moreUS Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles
February 15 2021The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.” Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the...
Read moreDeliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
February 15 2021
Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down and...
Read moreOn Vulnerability-Adjacent Vulnerabilities
February 15 2021
At the virtual Enigma Conference, Google’s Project Zero’s Maggie Stone gave a talk about zero-day exploits in the wild. In it, she talked about how often vendors...
Read moreChinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
February 13 2021
Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
February 12 2021How squid fly. 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 moreMedieval Security Techniques
February 12 2021Sonja Drummer describes (with photographs) two medieval security techniques. The first is a for authentication: a document has been cut in half with an irregular pattern, so that the...
Read moreAttack against Florida Water Treatment Facility
February 12 2021
A water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, was attacked last Friday. The attacker took control of one of the systems, and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide...
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