Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Images
September 2 2022iStock has over 13,000 royalty-free images of squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
Read moreMontenegro Is the Victim of a Cyberattack
September 2 2022Details are few, but Montenegro has suffered a cyberattack:
A combination of ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks, the onslaught disrupted government services and prompted the country’s electrical utility to...
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Montenegro is the Victim of a Cyberattack
September 2 2022Details are few, but Montenegro has suffered a cyberattack:
A combination of ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks, the onslaught disrupted government services and prompted the country’s electrical utility to...
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Clever Phishing Scam Uses Legitimate PayPal Messages
September 1 2022Brian Krebs is reporting on a clever PayPal phishing scam that uses legitimate PayPal messaging. Basically, the scammers use the PayPal invoicing system to send the email. The email lists...
Read moreHigh-School Graduation Prank Hack
August 31 2022This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools.
During...
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FTC Sues Data Broker
August 30 2022This is good news:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Kochava, a large location data provider, for allegedly selling data that the FTC says can track people at...
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Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics
August 29 2022The NSA has has published criteria for evaluating levels of assurance required for DoD microelectronics.
The introductory report in a DoD microelectronics series outlines the process for determining...
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It’s an Architeuthis dux, the second this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...
Read moreSecurity and Cheap Complexity
August 26 2022I’ve been saying that complexity is the worst enemy of security for a long time now. (Here’s me in 1999.) And it’s been true for a long time.
In...
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