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Coast Guard Not Ready to Protect Maritime Cybersecurity

Yet another challenge for the new administration. In the face of escalating cyber threats against the US maritime transportation system, the Coast Guard, which is responsible for maritime cybersecurity, doesn’t have a plan. The GAO released a report on a year long study that says, basically, not ready for prime time. The Russians, Chinese and […]

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Apple Warns of “Extremely Sophisticated Attack”

Since Apple is usually very mild in its reports, to call this an extremely sophisticated attack that may be targeting iThings is pretty unusual. The bug is in something called USB restricted mode which disables the USB port on phones and tablets after they have been locked for an hour. The idea is to stop […]

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Security News Bites for February 7, 2025

Musk Aides With No Government or Cybersecurity Expertise Play Critical Roles at OPM Six young engineers, all under age 24 and one just out of high school, with no government or cybersecurity experience, are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, gaining unrestricted access to computer systems at the Office […]

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Lawsuit Against Automatic License Plate Reader May Proceed, Judge Says

Privacy is a nice concept but it doesn’t seem to exist anymore. A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit against Norfolk, Virginia can move forward. The city currently has 172 license plate readers and plans to add 65 more cameras around the city. The cameras record all vehicles within 150 feet of any […]

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4 is the Randomest Number Ever (Sort Of)

Google researchers have figured out how to break AMD’s processor security allowing them to load any processor microcode of their choosing. They demonstrated this by loading microcode that had the chip produce the number 4 every time when asked for a random number. In theory, only AMD (for their chips) or Intel (for theirs) should […]

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Hey Google (AI), Create Me Some Malware. (Please)

Google has revealed that just in the past year dozens of hacking groups in two dozen countries have been detected using Google’s AI agent Gemini to write malware, look for vulnerabilities and target organizations for attack. Among other nefarious tasks. Hackers have used regular Google for years to profile organizations, so that is not really […]

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