Perfectl Malware
October 14 2024Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware:
The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that...
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Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid
October 12 2024Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreMore on My AI and Democracy Book
October 12 2024In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan...
Read moreIronNet Has Shut Down
October 11 2024After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that...
Read moreAuto-Identification Smart Glasses
October 9 2024Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious—something similar was done in 2011—but the sort...
Read moreChina Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
October 8 2024The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government...
Read moreLargest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
October 7 2024Cloudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. (Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) News article.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Map of All Colossal Squid Sightings
October 5 2024Interesting map, from this paper. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreWeird Zimbra Vulnerability
October 3 2024Hackers can execute commands on a remote computer by sending malformed emails to a Zimbra mail server. It’s critical, but difficult to exploit reliably.
In an email sent Wednesday...
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