The US has returned $154 million in bitcoins stolen by a Sony employee. However, on December 1, following an investigation in collaboration with Japanese law enforcement authorities, the FBI seized...
Read moreCitizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. One was hacked by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus...
Read moreThis seems big: The UK government has officially included decapod crustaceans–including crabs, lobsters, and crayfish–and cephalopod mollusks–including octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish–in its Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. Thi...
Read moreLog4j is being exploited by all sorts of attackers, all over the Internet:
At that point it was reported that there were over 100 attempts to exploit the vulnerability...
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It’s serious:
The range of impacts is so broad because of the nature of the vulnerability itself. Developers use logging frameworks to keep track of what happens in a...
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The Far Side is always good for a squid reference. Here’s a recent one. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
Read moreA January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story...
Read moreGoogle took steps to shut down the Glupteba botnet, at least for now. (The botnet uses the bitcoin blockchain as a backup command-and-control mechanism, making it hard to get...
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