SonicWall Zero-Day
February 8 2021
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day in SonicWall:
In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: “Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat affects the...
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NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack
February 8 2021
It seems to be the season of sophisticated supply-chain attacks.
This one is in the NoxPlayer Android emulator:
ESET says that based on evidence its researchers gathered, a threat...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Live Giant Squid Found in Japan
February 5 2021A giant squid was found alive in the port of Izumo, Japan. Not a lot of news, just this Twitter thread (with a couple of videos). If confirmed, I believe...
Read morePresidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
February 5 2021
President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, it’s an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera, and...
Read moreAnother SolarWinds Orion Hack
February 4 2021
At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using...
Read moreMore SolarWinds News
February 3 2021
Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack:
Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another...
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Georgia’s Ballot-Marking Devices
February 1 2021
Andrew Appel discusses Georgia’s voting machines, how the paper ballots facilitated a recount, and the problem with automatic ballot-marking devices:
Suppose the polling-place optical scanners had been hacked (enough...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Don’t Like Pile-Driving Noises
January 29 2021
New research:
Pile driving occurs during construction of marine platforms, including offshore windfarms, producing intense sounds that can adversely affect marine animals. We quantified how a commercially and economically...
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