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...
Read moreMan-in-the-Middle Phishing Attack
August 25 2022Here’s a phishing campaign that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat multi-factor authentication:
Microsoft observed a campaign that inserted an attacker-controlled proxy site between the account users and the...
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Mudge Files Whistleblower Complaint against Twitter
August 24 2022Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC against Twitter, claiming that they violated an eleven-year-old FTC settlement by having lousy security. And he should...
Read moreSignal Phone Numbers Exposed in Twilio Hack
August 23 2022Twilio was hacked earlier this month, and the phone numbers of 1,900 Signal users were exposed:
Here’s what our users need to know:
- All users can rest assured that... Read more
Hyundai Uses Example Keys for Encryption System
August 22 2022This is a dumb crypto mistake I had not previously encountered:
A developer says it was possible to run their own software on the car infotainment hardware after discovering...
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The jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas) uses its color-changing ability as a language:
In 2020, however, marine biologists discovered that jumbo flying squid are surprisingly coordinated. Despite their large...
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