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Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away

Posted on By infossl
china, hacking, Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect: Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away” »

FBI Disables Russian Malware

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cyberespionage, espionage, fbi, hacking, malware, russia, Security technology, Uncategorized

Reuters is reporting that the FBI “had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia’s FSB security service against an undisclosed number of American computers, a move they hoped would deal a death blow to one of Russia’s leading cyber spying programs.” The headline says that the FBI “sabotaged” the malware, which seems to be wrong. … Read More “FBI Disables Russian Malware” »

AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, disclosure, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized

At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack. The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications. Participants will be given laptops to use to attack … Read More “AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year” »

SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier

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breaches, hacking, intrusion detection, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandiant detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what it detected—and so ignored it. WIRED can now confirm that the operation was actually discovered by the DOJ six months earlier, in late May 2020­—but the scale and … Read More “SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier” »

Hacking Pickleball

Posted on By infossl
cheating, hacking, Security technology, sports, Uncategorized

My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules. Here’s an example from pickleball, which nicely explains the dilemma between hacking as a subversion and hacking as innovation: Some might consider these actions cheating, … Read More “Hacking Pickleball” »

North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit

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cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, hacking, malware, North Korea, Security technology, supply chain, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

News: Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of the 3CX software supply-chain attack that’s unfolded over the past week. Kaspersky declined to name any of those victim companies, but it notes that they’re based in “western Asia.” … Read More “North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit” »

Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked

Posted on By infossl
cyberespionage, cyberwar, espionage, hacking, leaks, russia, Security technology, Uncategorized, whistleblowers

Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic … Read More “Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked” »

Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023

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adobe, cars, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized, windows, zero-day

An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver: On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS zero-day exploits and exploit chains to win $375,000 and a Tesla Model 3. The first to fall was Adobe … Read More “Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023” »