A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A pair of scientists—John ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?
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Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.New research from Kaspersky focuses on the types of malicious services provided by cybercriminals on the dark web. They found that Google Play threats and Android phone infections are ...
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Back on March 2, 2020 I wrote a review about Andy Greenberg’s book on cyberwar titled Sandworm. I really enjoyed that book, even though the subject was quite sobering. Greenberg recently released his latest book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. For those of you who think that Bitcoin is a secure ...
By Bob Weiss
CISA issued a bulletin last week (see below) about Russian capabilities to attack the US energy sector. I have been warning about this danger since 2016, when I read Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out. The timeframe of the current alert (2011 to 2018) coincides with the Obama/Biden Administration, interestingly enough. Not the Trump administration though ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: February 28, 2022
Broadcom Software—an industry member of CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)—uncovers an advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign against select governments and other critical infrastructure targets in a publication titled Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed ...
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Remember NotPetya? This was a campaign by the Sandworm APT in Russia the last time Russia invaded the Ukraine. It deleted hard drives around the world before it was through. There is a new variant call the HermeticWiper being deployed against Ukrainian business targets that has the same danger of spilling over into the rest of the world. Here are a couple ...
This is a special report on the emerging situation in the Ukraine, the NATO Alliance, and attacks by Russian Federation cyber-operations against the West.I find it ironic that Putin claims to be invading Ukraine to rid it of Nazis. Everything he has done in the last decade to reclaim lands in Belarus, Georgia, the Crimea, and eastern Ukraine is ...
Continue Reading →Worst President in my lifetime. Probably the worst president ever.
When I put this post together four weeks ago, we weren’t at war with Russia yet. Now we are (yeah no boots on the ground yet, but we ARE at war) so I guess we will see just what kind of president he will be. This is his moment. Hope he doesn’t blow it (like everything else he’s touched)
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.