Cellebrite Can Break Signal
December 21 2020
Cellebrite announced that it can break Signal. (Note that the company has heavily edited its blog post, but the original — with lots of technical details —...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Christmas Squid Memories
December 18 2020Stuffed squid for Christmas Eve. 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...
Read moreNSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
December 18 2020
The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected data in the cloud.” This is...
Read moreUS Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
December 18 2020
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite:
Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts,...
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More on the SolarWinds Breach
December 17 2020
The New York Times has more details.
About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update – a Trojan horse of sorts – that gave its...
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Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
December 17 2020
Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels:
As many as 25 private companies — including the...
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Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
December 16 2020
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
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This is interesting:
Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user via OWA....
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Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
December 15 2020
The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers.
Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of...
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