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Chey e-Cobb

@chey_cobb
21 posts
2022-08-24
I've been listening to Peiter Zatko since the mid-90s. Google some of the people you see sitting with him in a Congressional hearing. I'm sure you'll find some of their hacker handles familiar. Heard of l0pht or cDc? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-08-24 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow

From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’

2022-01-22
Whoaaa... I bet there's an interesting story behind this. Pieter/Mudge was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow and has worked hard to educate governments & businesses about digital vulnerabilities and cyber security issues since the 90s. @cDc_Pulpit https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020

Market summary: 📊  —  Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Set...

2021-10-01
Convenience is the enemy of Security ~ When you upgrade an iPhone iOS, your phone badgers you to set up Apple Pay. When you agree, this type of convenience sidesteps security measures. In the UK, banks are not legally bound to return your money. https://www.bbc.com/...
2021-10-01 View on X
BBC

Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it “a concern with a Visa system”

here's what to do Will Feuer / New York Post : Researchers flag flaw that allows hackers to drain cash from iPhones Tweets: @serghei : 😬In combination with a Visa card, “this featu...

2021-09-12
Brilliant law enforcement ploy; questionable ethics ~ Every message sent on An0m phones since its launch had been collected by the Australian Federal Police & the FBI, who had conceived, built, marketed & sold the super-exclusive, supposedly secure phone https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-09-12 View on X
The Guardian

How FBI and Australian police built and marketed the An0m chat service for criminals, which cost $1,700 for a handset and $1,250 for an annual subscription

Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld.  There was just one problem … Tweets: @evansthecrime , @chey_cobb , @simonparkin , a...

2021-08-18
Blackberry has been ducking reports that their QNX OS is vulnerable. It still powers cars, factories, medical devices, railroad equipment, US govt equipment, and certain parts of the Space Station. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-18 View on X
Politico

BlackBerry discloses a critical flaw in QNX OS, impacting 200M+ cars, hospital equipment, more; sources say it resisted public disclosure until talks with CISA

A flaw in software made by BlackBerry has left two hundred million cars, along with critical hospital and factory equipment …

2021-07-30
Paragon's co-founder, director, and chief shareholder is Ehud Schneorson, the former commander of Israel's NSA equivalent, known as Unit 8200. The other co-founders are ex-Israeli intelligence and former PM Ehud Barak is on the Board. https://www.forbes.com/...
2021-07-30 View on X
Forbes

Profile of Israeli surveillance startup Paragon, funded with $5-10M from US-based Battery, which sources say allows police to hack encrypted messaging apps

Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @jsrailton , @imdrinknwyn , @matthewmspace , @marwasf , @ncweaver , @imdrinknwyn , @jsrailton , @tenacioustek , @imdrinknwyn , @jsrailton , @nix...

2021-07-08
The Pentagon has gone straight into Dr Strangelove territory now. This is the most naïve and irresponsible belief in modern warfare. The public need to demand a moratorium on AI use & development in weaponry. This is insanity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-07-08 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the debate over autonomous weapons: 30 countries support a total ban, the US says concerns are overblown, and Russia says such weapons don't yet exist

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Tweets: @zaknafeindc , @ghostpanther , @thekarami , @chey_cobb , @nils_gilman , @gerritd , @rachaelmyrow , @ylitvinenko , @onekade , @daankayse...

2021-06-22
If I were a school, a charity, or the local council, I'd be hanging outside the doors of this Amazon facility in Dunfermline to beg for access to these goods, for the benefit of the community. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-22 View on X
ITV

Investigation finds Amazon has been destroying thousands of unsold goods at its UK-based Dunfermline warehouse; source says 130K items are destroyed per week

Richard Pallot / ITV :

2021-06-17
Here's the link to @bxchen's article today. While I've been more concerned with Amazon's security fails, Brian makes a different point: Consumers are unpaid beta testers for Amazon's wasteful pet projects. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-06-17 View on X
New York Times

With products like Dash Buttons and Echo Look, Amazon uses customers to test features then sunsets the devices too quickly due to low sales or negative feedback

Brian X. Chen / New York Times : Tweets: @elephantjournal , @rgmcgrath , @gregbensinger , and @chey_cobb Tweets: @elephantjournal : Amazon's experimental approach to product desig...

2021-04-03
If you had more than $20K in Bitcoin transactions with Circle Internet Financial or Poloniex LLC, the IRS wants to talk to you about tax dodging... https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-03 View on X
CoinDesk

Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020

2021-04-02
If you had more than $20K in Bitcoin transactions with Circle Internet Financial or Poloniex LLC, the IRS wants to talk to you about tax dodging... https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-02 View on X
CoinDesk

Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020

A Massachusetts court is supporting a request from the IRS to obtain the records Circle customers, the Department of Justice said.

2021-01-18
“This idea that the major tech companie are competing against each other is very much overstated. In many ways, they reinforce each other's monopoly power.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-18 View on X
New York Times

A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit

Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.

Google has secretly given advertising advantages to Facebook. The clear disparity in how other companies are treated by Google when compared to Facebook has not been previously reported. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-18 View on X
New York Times

A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit

Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.

2020-12-09
😤 FireEye now joins the NSA and the CIA as the largest suppliers of arms to criminal cyber gangs & hostile military forces. ⁦@zcobb⁩ https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-12-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers

The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers

2020-12-03
The most advanced iPhone hack installs an implant that has full access to a user's personal data (emails, photos, messages), passwords & crypto keys stored in the keychain. Equipment required: a laptop, a Raspberry Pi, and common Wi-Fi adapters. https://arstechnica.com/...
2020-12-03 View on X
The Verge

Researcher details a zero-click iOS device exploit using Apple's AWDL protocol, now patched, which could have granted access to device hardware and data

A Google Project Zero researcher found a stunning vulnerability  —  Ever watch that movie, or play that video game …

2020-07-30
China hacked the Vatican with an attachment. The phishing lure containing malware was a letter from a respected Bishop. “Insikt Group identified multiple PlugX C2 servers communicating with Vatican hosts from mid-May until at least July 21, 2020” https://www.recordedfuture.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-30 View on X
New York Times

Report: China-linked hackers infiltrated the Vatican's computer networks in the past three months, ahead of the Vatican's diplomatic negotiations with Beijing

New York Times :

2020-04-23
I'm happy FB has finally admitted they CAN do something to fight propaganda and disinfo but angry it took a hit to their wallet for them to implement it. I guess I should be grateful... 🤨 @thespybrief https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook says it will now show the location of large Facebook and Instagram accounts alongside posts, to help users assess their authenticity, rolling out in US

Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who's behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram.

2020-03-11
Toldja so ~ IoT punches holes in cybersecurity Their vulnerabilities make them easy targets; hackers use them as stepping stones for lateral movement to attack other systems on the network. 57% of IoT devices are vulnerable to medium-to-high severity attacks. @thespybrief https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-11 View on X
VentureBeat

Report: 83% of internet-connected medical imaging devices run on outdated operating systems, up 56% since 2018 due to the end of Windows 7 support in Jan.

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security division said medical equipment is outdated and vulnerable to hacker attacks and health care organizations … Source: Unit42 .

2020-02-26
You may start hearing news of a PayPal hack. The security community is aware of the problem(s) but are holding back with alerts because of a lack of consensus on the severity. For now, be paranoid - Verify your PayPal payments. 1/2 @thespybrief https://www.zdnet.com/...
2020-02-26 View on X
ZDNet

PayPal is investigating unauthorized transactions affecting numerous German users; a researcher says hackers could be exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration

All signs point to an attack exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration. … Hackers have found a bug in PayPal's Google Pay integration …

Two more articles on the alleged PayPal hack(s) that illustrate the confusion. PayPal & Bug Bounty Hunters can't agree on the vulnerabilities or the risks. 2/2 Forbes https://www.forbes.com/... CyberNews https://cybernews.com/...
2020-02-26 View on X
ZDNet

PayPal is investigating unauthorized transactions affecting numerous German users; a researcher says hackers could be exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration

All signs point to an attack exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration. … Hackers have found a bug in PayPal's Google Pay integration …