De-anonymizing Bitcoin
April 11 2022Andy Greenberg wrote a long article — an excerpt from his new book — on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Do Squid Have Emotions?
April 8 2022Scientists are now debating whether octopuses, squid, and crabs have emotions. Short answer: we don’t know, but can’t rule it out.
There may be a point when humans can...
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US Disrupts Russian Botnet
April 7 2022The Justice Department announced the disruption of a Russian GRU-controlled botnet:
The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet...
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Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
April 6 2022FinFisher has shut down operations. This is the spyware company whose products were used, among other things, to spy on Turkish and Bahraini political opposition.
Read moreBrian Krebs has a detailed post about hackers using fake police data requests to trick companies into handing over data.
Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of...
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Wyze Camera Vulnerability
April 4 2022Wyze ignored a vulnerability in its home security cameras for three years. Bitdefender, who discovered the vulnerability, let the company get away with it.
In case you’re wondering, no,...
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New research on the changing migration of the Doryteuthis opalescens as a result of climate change. News article: Stanford researchers have solved a mystery about why a species of squid native...
Read moreBypassing Two-Factor Authentication
April 1 2022These techniques are not new, but they’re increasingly popular:
…some forms of MFA are stronger than others, and recent events show that these weaker forms aren’t much of a...
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