Hacking Starlink
August 11 2022This is the first—of many, I assume—hack of Starlink. Leveraging a string of vulnerabilities, attackers can access the Starlink system and run custom code on the devices.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
August 5 2022Seems like they are being discovered all the time: In the past, the DEEPEND crew has discovered three new species of Bathyteuthids, a type of squid that lives in depths...
Read moreSIKE Broken
August 4 2022SIKE is one of the new algorithms that NIST recently added to the post-quantum cryptography competition.
It was just broken, really badly.
We present an efficient key recovery...
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Drone Deliveries into Prisons
August 3 2022Seems it’s now common to sneak contraband into prisons with a drone.
Read moreSurveillance of Your Car
August 2 2022TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it. The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected...
Read moreShort article on the evolution of the vampire squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreMicrosoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used
July 29 2022Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. There’s...
Read moreNew UFEI Rootkit
July 28 2022Kaspersky is reporting on a new UFEI rootkit that survives reinstalling the operating system and replacing the hard drive. From an article:
The firmware compromises the UEFI, the...
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