Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat:
The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, hit the shoreline near Chinese...
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Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
December 30 2022Yet another smartphone side-channel attack: “EarSpy: Spying Caller Speech and Identity through Tiny Vibrations of Smartphone Ear Speakers“:
Abstract: Eavesdropping from the user’s smartphone is a well-known threat to...
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QR Code Scam
December 29 2022An enterprising individual made fake parking tickets with a QR code for easy payment.
Read moreArresting IT Administrators
December 27 2022This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches:
Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not...
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LastPass Breach
December 26 2022Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. Turns out the full story is worse:
While no customer data was accessed during...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder
December 24 2022Here’s a video—I don’t know where it’s from—of an injured juvenile male giant squid grabbing on to a paddleboard. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Read moreHacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
December 23 2022Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers...
Read moreCritical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
December 22 2022A critical code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows was patched in September. It seems that researchers just realized how serious it was (and is):
Like EternalBlue, CVE-2022-37958, as the latest...
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Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls
December 21 2022They’re using commercial phones, which go through the Ukrainian telecom network:
“You still have a lot of soldiers bringing cellphones to the frontline who want to talk to their...
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