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via Ophir Harpaz, writing at the Guardicore Blog comes highly concerning news of a nascent SSH botnet discovery by the security professionals at Guardicore, dubbed FritzFrog. Today’s Must Read!
The post Guardicore Discovers SSH Targeting Botnet: Telec… Continue reading Guardicore Discovers SSH Targeting Botnet: Telecom Infrastructure A Target (Along With Financial Systems)
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In what is certainly the single most fascinating and well-crafted piece on the taxonomy of organized crime in months; and it’s present and future significance for information and cyber security professionals (and non-professionals as w… Continue reading Using Similar Taxonomies To Understand Present And Future Security Challenges
via Jon Brodkin, plying the writing trade at our beloved Ars Technica, comes this tale of the Federal Communications Commission’s latest fail of note. This time, with the Communist Chinese. Read the Senate report, via the United States Senate’s Perman… Continue reading FCC Follies: The 20 Year Chinese Communist Monitoring Fail
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via Marc Weber Tobias, writing at Forbes, comes this superlative piece detailing consent inconsistency and other fundamental legal problems with Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Siri personal assistant. Todays Must… Continue reading Marc Tobias On Apple Inc.’s Siri Promises
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via Quanta Magazine’s Erica Klarreich, comes the story of Lisa Piccirillo’s solution to Conway’s Knot Problem.
Behold, Ms. Piccirillo’s proof. Today’s MustRead.
‘In the summer of 2018, at a conference on low-… Continue reading Knot’s Landed: Conway’s Knot Problem Solved
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via the erudite Catalin Cimpanu (formerly reporting at BleepingComputer, now writing at ZDNet’s ZDNet’s ZeroDay blog) comes well-crafted and detailed reporting, target… Continue reading New APT Report: The Unknown Knowns
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Begs the question as how effective the company’s ‘Business Partners’ security programs were, as well. Today’s Must Read via The New York Times journalists Natasha Singer and Nic… Continue reading Zooms’ Security Fails Common Knowledge To The Company’s ‘Partners’
via Raphael Satter, Jack Stubbs and Christopher Bing, writing at Reuters comes this well-crafted reportage, detailing a new malicous attack on the World Health Organization and mounted by currently-surveilled foul-villains-of-the-cyber-kind. Most Assu… Continue reading Villainy Of The Most Atrocious Sort
A new (published February 24th, 2020) study – targeting web browser chattiness and privacy (whatever may be left, i.e.). Comprised of highly detailed data, and authored by Professor Douglas J. Leith PhD, School of Computer Science & Statistics, Tr… Continue reading Douglas J. Leith, PhD: ‘Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When The Phone Home?’
Easily one of the to-the-point, no nonsense, network reconnaissance detection methods I have read appeared yesterday via the CYMRU Blog; obviously written with both great care and expertise, David Monnier’s piece on Detecting Cyber Recon Using Network… Continue reading Detecting Reconnaissance