Finnish Data Theft and Extortion
December 10 2020
The Finnish psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo was the victim of a data breach and theft. The criminals tried extorting money from the clinic. When that failed, they started extorting money...
Read moreFireEye Hacked
December 9 2020
FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”:
During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain...
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Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
December 8 2020
This new protocol, called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH), hides the websites you visit from your ISP.
Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around the DNS query...
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Hiding Malware in Social Media Buttons
December 7 2020
Clever tactic:
This new malware was discovered by researchers at Dutch cyber-security company Sansec that focuses on defending e-commerce websites from digital skimming (also known as Magecart) attacks.
The payment...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Found in Australian Waters
December 4 2020A bigfin squid has been found — and filmed — in Australian waters for the first time. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
Read moreThe 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
December 4 2020The workshop on Economics and Information Security is always an interesting conference. This year, it will be online. Here’s the program. Registration is free.
Read moreEnigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
December 4 2020Neat story: German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which...
Read moreOpen Source Does Not Equal Secure
December 3 2020
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software:
First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws. Security researchers are...
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Impressive iPhone Exploit
December 2 2020
This is a scarily impressive vulnerability:
Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave...
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