Stalkerware? Spouseware? Creepware? Just Call It Horrific

The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is stepping up its fight against Stalkerware. It’s asking for help from AV vendors, phone platform makers, and law enforcement. It’s time to put an end to it.
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toolsmith #130 – OSINT with Buscador

In addition to my work as an information security leader and practitioner at Microsoft, I am privileged to serve in Washington’s military as a J-2 which means I’m part of the intelligence directorate of a joint staff. Intelligence duties in a guard un… Continue reading toolsmith #130 – OSINT with Buscador

toolsmith #130 – OSINT with Buscador

First off, Happy New Year! I hope you have a productive and successful 2018. I thought I’d kick off the new year with another exploration of OSINT. In addition to my work as an information security leader and practitioner at Microsoft, I am privileged … Continue reading toolsmith #130 – OSINT with Buscador

Contender For World’s Most Unsettling Drone?

We’re not sure what FESTO is advertising with their odd flying beach ball. Amongst inspirational music it gently places its translucent appendage over a water bottle and then engulfs it with an unsettling plastic sound. With a high pitched whine it hovers away with its prey and deposits it in the hand of a thirsty business man, perhaps as a misguided nurturing instinct.

Despite discovering a new uncanny valley, the robot is pretty cool. It appears to a be a hybrid airship/helicopter on a small-scale. The balloon either zeros out the weight of the robot or provides slightly more lift. …read more

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