Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA workers into jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused
“It seems like it's in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them,” a US official told me. — I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this shortly after I get ba...
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus
A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com . Mastodon: @kimzetter@infosec.exchan...
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs
Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China. — The Cyber Angle Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com Bluesky: Patrick Howell O'Neill / @pat...
Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @emanuelmaiberg . Mas...
In a viral YouTube video, MegaLag claims PayPal's Honey browser extension doesn't show users the best coupons and deals, and steals creators' affiliate revenue
www.fakespot.com [embedded post] Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken.com : It was obvious that Honey was involved in poaching of some sort, but this is a brilliantly-done video. https://9to5mac.com/2024...
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
CISA Director Jen Easterly and Executive Assistant Director Eric Goldstein say incentives for developing and selling tech should not eclipse customer safety
> - Secure products not just security products - Security built in not bolted on - Raise everyone's baseline by reducing the [total] cost of control @CISAJen https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Patric...
Hands-on with iOS 16's Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more
journalists, activists, and human rights defenders — against zero-click government spyware. https://techcrunch.com/... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : This is to protect against NSO et. al, but I wond...
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company
Thursday, June 30, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Tweets: Max Seddon / @maxseddon : “Chinese students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature...
Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days
Saturday, June 25, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Deeba Ahmed / HackRead : ISPs Helping Attackers Install Hermit Spyware on Smartphones- Google Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Spyware ...