Hacking 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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Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
December 20 2022Mandiant is reporting on a trojaned Windows installer that targets Ukrainian users. The installer was left on various torrent sites, presumably ensnaring people downloading pirated copies of the...
Read moreHow to Surrender to a Drone
December 19 2022The Ukrainian army has released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers should surrender to a drone:
“Seeing the drone in the field of view, make eye contact with...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
December 17 2022Squid is performing a concert in London in February. If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this. As usual, you can also use this...
Read moreApple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
December 16 2022The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1.”
News:
Apple said security researchers...
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A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
December 15 2022Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet:
With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was...
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