Presidential 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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Including Hackers in NATO Wargames
January 29 2021
This essay makes the point that actual computer hackers would be a useful addition to NATO wargames:
The international information security community is filled with smart people who are...
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New iMessage Security Features
January 29 2021
Apple has added added security features to mitigate the risk of zero-click iMessage attacks.
Apple did not document the changes but Groß said he fiddled around with the...
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Police Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
January 28 2021
A coordinated effort has captured the command-and-control servers of the Emotet botnet:
Emotet establishes a backdoor onto Windows computer systems via automated phishing emails that distribute Word documents...
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Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data
January 27 2021
Insider data theft:
Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground.
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According to Verlaan, the...
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