Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Chili Squid
January 22 2021The restaurant chain Wagamama is selling a vegan version of its Chilli Squid side dish made from king oyster mushrooms. As usual, you can also use this squid post to...
Read moreSVR Attacks on Microsoft 365
January 21 2021
FireEye is reporting the current known tactics that the SVR used to compromise Microsoft 365 cloud data as part of its SolarWinds operation:
Mandiant has observed UNC2452 and other...
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Sophisticated Watering Hole Attack
January 20 2021
Google’s Project Zero has exposed a sophisticated watering-hole attack targeting both Windows and Android:
Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were...
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Injecting a Backdoor into SolarWinds Orion
January 19 2021
Crowdstrike is reporting on a sophisticated piece of malware that was able to inject malware into the SolarWinds build process:
Key Points
- SUNSPOT is StellarParticle’s malware used to insert the... Read more
From Pingtan Marine Enterprise:
The 6 large-scale squid jigging vessels are normally operating vessels that returned to China earlier this year from the waters of Southwest Atlantic Ocean for...
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Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
January 15 2021
For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody in hardcover for just $6, plus shipping.
Note that I have had occasional problems...
Read moreCell Phone Location Privacy
January 15 2021
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a...
Read moreFinding the Location of Telegram Users
January 14 2021
Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users:
Using readily available software and a...
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Smart commentary:
…I was floored on Wednesday when, glued to my television, I saw police in some areas of the U.S. Capitol using little more than those same mobile...
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