A Hacker’s Mind News
March 25 2023My latest book continues to sell well. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports. Reviews are consistently good. I have been enjoying giving...
Read moreExploding USB Sticks
March 24 2023In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks:
In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private...
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Mass Ransomware Attack
March 23 2023A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack:
TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected GoAnywhere file transfer...
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ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
March 22 2023OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw where users were seeing each others’ histories.
Read moreUS Citizen Hacked by Spyware
March 21 2023The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust...
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At least, it seems to be a new species. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreNetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
March 14 2023From Brian Krebs:
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to...
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Chinese squid fishing boats are overwhelming Ecuador and Peru. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreElephant Hackers
March 11 2023An elephant uses its right-of-way privileges to stop sugar-cane trucks and grab food.
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