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Month: November 2023

Friday Squid Blogging: The History and Morality of US Squid Consumption

Really interesting article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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Friday Squid Blogging: The History and Morality of US Squid Consumption

@ Bruce, ALL, Re : Black out comming to get you all? This “OMG we’re Doomed” story about US Power infrastructure has just been rekindled for the XXXth time this decade, https://thelibertydaily.com/grid-down-alert-north-america-risk-blackouts-during/ In part because we are aproaching Solar Maximum, in part because of political unrest and economic uncertainty. And yes what it says is […]

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World’s biggest bank hit by ransomware, forced to trade via USB stick

Graham CLULEY November 10, 2023 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The US trading arm of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has been hit by a ransomware attack that reportedly forced it to handle trades via messengers carrying USB thumb drives across Manhattan. A notice on […]

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  • November 10, 2023

Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). “The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) […]

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The Privacy Disaster of Modern Smart Cars

Article based on a Mozilla report.  

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MPs Dangerously Uninformed About Facial Recognition – Report

Privacy International warns UK is “sleepwalking into public mass surveillance”

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  • November 10, 2023

CherryBlos, the malware that steals cryptocurrency via your photos – what you need to know

What’s the deal with CherryBlos? CherryBlos is a rather interesting family of Android malware that can plunder your cryptocurrency accounts – with a little help from your photos. Wait. I’ve heard of hackers stealing photos before, but what do you mean by malware stealing cryptocurrency via my photos? How does it do that? Well, imagine […]

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  • November 10, 2023

The New 80/20 Rule for SecOps: Customize Where it Matters, Automate the Rest

There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their organization, and this has accelerated the adoption of automated solutions to take the place of […]

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  • November 10, 2023

Alert: ‘Effluence’ Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident Response Services said in an analysis published […]

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