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Friday Squid Blogging: UK Recognizes Squid as Sentient Beings

Posted on By infossl
Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

This seems big: The UK government has officially included decapod crustaceans–including crabs, lobsters, and crayfish–and cephalopod mollusks–including octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish–in its Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. This means they are now recognized as “sentient beings” in the UK. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: UK Recognizes Squid as Sentient Beings” »

More Log4j News

Posted on By infossl
data protection, patching, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities, zero-day

Log4j is being exploited by all sorts of attackers, all over the Internet: At that point it was reported that there were over 100 attempts to exploit the vulnerability every minute. “Since we started to implement our protection we prevented over 1,272,000 attempts to allocate the vulnerability, over 46% of those attempts were made by … Read More “More Log4j News” »

NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used Against US State Department Officials

Posted on By infossl
cyberespionage, hacking, israel, Security technology, spyware, Uncategorized

NSO Group’s descent into Internet pariah status continues. Its Pegasus spyware was used against nine US State Department employees. We don’t know which NSO Group customer trained the spyware on the US. But the company does: NSO Group said in a statement on Thursday that it did not have any indication their tools were used … Read More “NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used Against US State Department Officials” »

Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata

Posted on By infossl
cell phones, fbi, law enforcement, metadata, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story and it’s been written about elsewhere. I don’t see a lot of surprises in the document. Lots of apps leak all sorts of metadata: iMessage and WhatsApp seem … Read More “Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata” »

Google Shuts Down Glupteba Botnet, Sues Operators

Posted on By infossl
bitcoin, blockchain, botnets, cybersecurity, google, Security technology, Uncategorized

Google took steps to shut down the Glupteba botnet, at least for now. (The botnet uses the bitcoin blockchain as a backup command-and-control mechanism, making it hard to get rid of it permanently.) So Google is also suing the botnet’s operators. It’s an interesting strategy. Let’s see if it’s successful. Powered by WPeMatico

New German Government is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors

Posted on By infossl
backdoors, encryption, germany, national security policy, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

I hope this is true: According to Jens Zimmermann, the German coalition negotiations had made it “quite clear” that the incoming government of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the business-friendly liberal FDP would reject “the weakening of encryption, which is being attempted under the guise of the fight against child abuse” by the … Read More “New German Government is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors” »

Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays

Posted on By infossl
de-anonymization, privacy, Security technology, tor, Uncategorized

Since 2017, someone is running about a thousand — 10% of the total — Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network: Grouping these servers under the KAX17 umbrella, Nusenu says this threat actor has constantly added servers with no contact details to the Tor network in industrial quantities, operating servers in the realm … Read More “Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays” »

Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars

Posted on By infossl
apple, cars, geolocation, Security technology, theft, tracking, Uncategorized

From Ontario and not surprising: Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name “air tags” are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking … Read More “Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars” »