Collaborate Disseminate
At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks rather than the very low-end short distance fibre you’ll find …read more Continue reading It’s IP, Over TOSLINK!
As a company fortunate enough to have and maintain our own pentesting team, we often do outreach with other organizations to assist with or provide our expertise in offensive security. In collaboration with the Kerala Police Cyber unit, we were able to… Continue reading The SBI fake banking app shows that SMS authentication has had its day
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Darren Williams, CEO at BlackFog, talks about how employee training plays a crucial role in preventing ransomware attacks. He points out that human error is often the biggest security risk and explains how AI to… Continue reading Preventing the next ransomware attack with help from AI
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BioConnect, BreachLock, McAfee, Netgear, and Swimlane. NETGEAR Armor, powered by Bitdefender, protects home networks against cyber threats Armor is a security an… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: January 10, 2025
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a loca… Continue reading See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location
Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a …read more Continue reading Engineering Lessons from the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Failure
Christie Wilcox reports via Science.org: Both longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) and humans can figure out how to work together to move an unwieldy object through a series of obstacles. So scientists pitted the two against each other. They … Continue reading Ants Best Humans At Test of Collective Intelligence
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Continue reading ISC Stormcast For Friday, January 10th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9274, (Fri, Jan 10th)
The Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, “a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: Th… Continue reading Biden To Further Limit AI Chip Exports In Final Push
With the recent Cyberhaven Extension(2) attack, looking for specific Chrome extensions installed can be very helpful. If you are running Defender with enhanced vulnerability management, Defender automatically catalogs installed extensions by going to Vulnerability Management -> Inventories and selecting Browser Extension from the Defender Console. Also, you can do Hunt Queries on the DeviceTvmBrowserExtensions table.
Continue reading Windows Defender Chrome Extension Detection, (Fri, Jan 10th)