Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
May 9 2022Apple Mail now blocks email trackers by default.
Most email newsletters you get include an invisible “image,” typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. The server...
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Video of oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) changing color in reaction to their background. The research paper claims this is the first time this has been documented. As usual, you can...
Read moreThe Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. It’s an attempt by...
Read more15.3 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack
May 5 2022Cloudflare is reporting a large DDoS attack against an unnamed company “operating a crypto launchpad.”
While this isn’t the largest application-layer attack we’ve seen, it is the largest...
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New Sophisticated Malware
May 4 2022Mandiant is reporting on a new botnet.
The group, which security firm Mandiant is calling UNC3524, has spent the past 18 months burrowing into victims’ networks with unusual stealth....
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Researchers are using the reflection of the smartphone in the pupils of faces taken as selfies to infer information about how the phone is being used: For now, the research...
Read moreVideo Conferencing Apps Sometimes Ignore the Mute Button
April 29 2022New research: “Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps“:
Abstract: In the post-pandemic era, video conferencing apps (VCAs) have converted previously private...
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Microsoft has a comprehensive report on the dozens of cyberattacks — and even more espionage operations — Russia has conducted against Ukraine as part of this war:
At least...
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