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Category Archives: cybersecurity

MacOS Zero-Day Used against Hong Kong Activists

November 12 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Apple, China, cybersecurity, Exploits, Google, Security, Zero-day

Google researchers discovered a MacOS zero-day exploit being used against Hong Kong activists. It was a “watering hole” attack, which means the malware was hidden in a legitimate...

Advice for Personal Digital Security

November 11 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Security

ArsTechnica’s Sean Gallagher has a two–part article on “securing your digital life.” It’s pretty good.

Syniverse Hack

October 6 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Security

This is interesting: A company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several others around the world such as Vodafone and...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: #BeCyberSmart

October 4 2021 By Paul Ducklin in cybersecurity, Malware, Security

#BeCyberSmart - during CyberSecurity Awareness Month and beyond

Serious Security: Let’s Encrypt gets ready to go it alone (in a good way!)

September 28 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Cryptography, cybersecurity, Security

Let's Encrypt is set to become a mainstream, self-certifying web certificate authority - here's why it took so many years.

Serious Security: Let’s Encrypt gets ready to go it alone (in a good way!)

September 28 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Cryptography, cybersecurity, Security

Let's Encrypt is set to become a mainstream, self-certifying web certificate authority - here's why it took so many years.

Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach

August 30 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, reports, Security

Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

August 25 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Forensics, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used...

REvil is Off-Line

July 16 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cybercrime, cybersecurity, Ransomware, Russia, Security

This is an interesting development:

Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of...
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