Ben Rothke relates a story about me working with a medical device firm back when I was with BT. I don’t remember the story at all, or who the company was. But it sounds about right. Powered by WPeMatico
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The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US. Powered by WPeMatico
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a pediatric care dog named “Squid.” Blog moderation policy. Powered by WPeMatico
The teaser for Squid Game Season Two dropped. Blog moderation policy. Powered by WPeMatico
This is really interesting. It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line. Clever. Powered by WPeMatico
The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers: The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world, including home routers, cameras, digital video recorders, and NAS drives. Those devices were used to help infiltrate sensitive networks related to universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, and media organizations…. … Read More “FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet” »
Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability? I have no idea, but I expect we will all learn over the next few days. … Read More “Remotely Exploding Pagers” »
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, … Read More “Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews” »
CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported. Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things. Powered by WPeMatico
This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines. Powered by WPeMatico