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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Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
December 14 2020Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different policy positions....
Read moreAuthentication Failure
December 14 2020
This is a weird story of a building owner commissioning an artist to paint a mural on the side of his building — except that he wasn’t actually...
Read moreThis is a deep-diving species that “fed on small prey items such as squid.” Academic paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
Read moreA Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
December 11 2020
The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Cybersecurity Group — I’m a member — has released its cybersecurity policy agenda for the next four years.
The next administration and Congress cannot simultaneously...
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