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Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- June 9, 2023
Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite
Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems to be US approval: American approval, even if indirect, has been at the heart of Paragon’s strategy. The company sought a list of allied nations that the […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsHow Attorneys Are Harming Cybersecurity Incident Response
New paper: “Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys“: Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help the wider community avoid similar attacks in the future. In pursuit of these goals, technical practitioners are increasingly influenced by stakeholders […]
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- June 7, 2023
Winning the Mind Game: The Role of the Ransomware Negotiator
Get exclusive insights from a real ransomware negotiator who shares authentic stories from network hostage situations and how he managed them. The Ransomware Industry Ransomware is an industry. As such, it has its own business logic: organizations pay money, in crypto-currency, in order to regain control over their systems and data. This industry’s landscape is […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSnowden Ten Years Later
In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. The New Yorker agreed to publish it, but the Guardian asked me not to. It was scared […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe Software-Defined Car
Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and so on. Now engineers and designers are rationalizing the way they go about building new models, taking advantage […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
Beautiful illustrations. 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.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- June 4, 2023
Install git From Source on Ubuntu
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- June 4, 2023
FTC Slams Amazon with $30.8M Fine for Privacy Violations Involving Alexa and Ring
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras. This comprises a $25 million penalty for breaching children’s privacy laws by retaining their Alexa voice recordings for indefinite time periods and preventing parents from exercising their deletion […]
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