Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe...
Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe...
Cybersecurity in the Evolving Threat Landscape Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2024 As technology evolves and our dependence on digital systems...
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024 Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM...
US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on...
An Elderly Man Falls Victim to a Fake Customer Service Cyber Fraud Elderly who man ordered food on Swiggy, was...
Security Vulnerability of HTML Emails This is a newly discovered email vulnerability: The email your manager received and forwarded to...
Friday Squid Blogging: SqUID Bots They’re AI warehouse robots. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in...
Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting...
Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode The lawsuit has been settled: Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records”...
xz Utils Backdoor The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source...
Declassified NSA Newsletters Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS...
tfb • April 1, 2024 2:43 PM @cybershow I had forgotten about the ADE 651. But the situation is slightly...
Ross Anderson Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when...
Friday Squid Blogging: The Geopolitics of Eating Squid New York Times op-ed on the Chinese dominance of the squid industry:...