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  • January 3, 2023

RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.

Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity dubbed RedZei (aka RedThief). “The RedZei fraudsters have chosen their targets carefully, researched them and realized it was a rich victim group that is ripe for exploitation,” cybersecurity researcher Will Thomas (@BushidoToken) said in a write-up

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What is cyber or digital forensics?

Cyber crimes are on the rise, and understanding forensic investigations is a key part of solving them. Learn the basics and get up to speed The post What is cyber or digital forensics? appeared first on .

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  • January 2, 2023

PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the “nightly” build were affected.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat: The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, hit the shoreline near Chinese Harbor at about 2 a.m. on Dec. 15. Six crew members were on board, and all were rescued without injury by another fishing boat. […] However, […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat: The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, hit the shoreline near Chinese Harbor at about 2 a.m. on Dec. 15. Six crew members were on board, and all were rescued without injury by another fishing boat. […] However, […]

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Geopolitical Tensions Expected to Further Impact Cybersecurity in 2023

The global political landscape will continue to have an impact on cybersecurity as nation-state backed cyber-attacks continue

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  • December 30, 2022

US passes the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act – and why not?

Cryptographic agility: the ability and the willingness to change quickly when needed.

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  • December 30, 2022

The horror! The horror! NOTEPAD gets tabbed editing (very briefly)

Is there a special meaning of “don’t” that means “go right ahead”?

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  • December 30, 2022

Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today. That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Heck, I’ve been doing this so long I briefly forgot which birthday this was! Thanks to your readership and support, I […]

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