Iranian Government Hacking Android
September 24 2020The New York Times wrote about a still-unreleased report from Chckpoint and the Miaan Group:
The reports, which were reviewed by The New York Times in advance of their...
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Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack
September 23 2020A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented...
Read moreInterview with the Author of the 2000 Love Bug Virus
September 22 2020No real surprises, but we finally have the story.
The story he went on to tell is strikingly straightforward. De Guzman was poor, and internet access was expensive. He...
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Amazon Delivery Drivers Hacking Scheduling System
September 22 2020Amazon drivers — all gig workers who don’t work for the company — are hanging cell phones in trees near Amazon delivery stations, fooling the system into thinking...
Read moreFormer NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
September 21 2020This sounds like a bad idea.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Nano-Sized SQUIDS
September 18 2020SQUID news: Physicists have developed a small, compact superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that can detect magnetic fields. The team l focused on the instrument’s core, which contains two parallel...
Read moreNihilistic Password Security Questions
September 18 2020Posted three years ago, but definitely appropriate for the times.
Read moreMatt Blaze on OTP Radio Stations
September 18 2020Matt Blaze discusses (also here) an interesting mystery about a Cuban one-time-pad radio station, and a random number generator error that probably helped arrest a pair of Russian spies...
Read moreNew Bluetooth Vulnerability
September 17 2020There’s a new unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability:
The issue is with a protocol called Cross-Transport Key Derivation (or CTKD, for short). When, say, an iPhone is getting ready to pair...
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